This is what the Republican Party has done to us this year: It has placed within reach of the Oval Office a woman who is a religious fanatic and a proud, boastful ignoramus.
The naturalistic and the moralistic: “Two Logical Fallacies we Must Avoid”. Wherin one thinks either that one ought because there is or that there is because one ought. Good comments as well.
The National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, CO has discovered that plants, during times of stress, produce their own form of aspirin. The researchers suggest that the phenomenon could be used by farmers as a type of early warning system for crop failure.
As excited as I am that this amazing structure will finally be open to the public, I wonder how long after the opening it is going to be until one can expect not to be buried under the inevitable throngs of people it is going to attract.
In the Salon article entitled “The Flying Spaghetti Monster”, Richard Dawkins (he, of Expelled-gate fame) responds to the semi-hypothetical statement, posited by the article’s author, Steve Paulson, that “it seems to [the author] the big ‘why’ questions are, why are we here? And what is our purpose in life?”
In The New York Times’ election guide to the 2008 presidential candidates’ stances on the issue of global warming, the differences between the Democrats’ stances contain merely subtle shades of grey but their practical solutions are quite varied. The Republicans? All over the map.
One Republican candidate seems to want to blame illegal immigration. Another seems to think that there is a solar system wide warming going on. So folksy, that Fred Thompson.