“Pro-Life’s Kindler, Gentler Face”.
That’s a lot of bills to pass in one year.
Category: General
Pogey Bait
What is a pogey, anyway, and how do you set the trap?
Sherlock Holmes Banned from Reading Lists for Being Anti-Mormon – National – The Atlantic Wire.
Well, he is. But I’m not so sure that his depiction of Mormons in the early 1800s is inaccurate. Second question: what role should Mormonism’s past play in how we view it today? Can a religion “adjust,” without fundamentally altering its foundational documents?
Can somebody back this up? I think it explains a lot, but I don’t know if it’s true.
Some Form of Egalitarian Cloudification.
I think he hits the nail on the head here, which of course means that, despite his criticism of her, Bachmann is just more electable than Palin.
The Ongoing Deleveraging of American Households.
This is great news. I’d love to see that number drop below 5%.
Grammar
The fundamental distinction is this: I would never make fun of somebody’s grandmother.
An infographic showing how people in science see each other – 22 Words
The Day the Earth Stood Still « Glory to God for All Things
The Day the Earth Stood Still « Glory to God for All Things.
Wow. This is a lot better than I expected. It’s a good explanation of the virgin birth, and a pretty good explanation of Eastern Christianity to a Westernized mind. I still don’t get the Orthodox rejection of the Atonement as payment for sin. It seems like a good understanding of the incarnation would give propitiation even more weight, not less. (HT:Pseudopolymath)
Obama: Political system broken – Abby Phillip – POLITICO.com
Obama: Political system broken – Abby Phillip – POLITICO.com.
For the record: gridlock is not a bug. It’s a feature. That’s how the constitution ensures that the majority doesn’t steamroll over minority political opinions. Goodbye gridlock, hello oppression! (HT: Pseudopolymath
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