Writer Lars Walker at [Brandywine Books](http://brandywinebooks.blogspot.com/2005_05_01_brandywinebooks_archive.html#111715119618642329) writes of his pain at seeing other people erase his past. As someone who has to hire historians to tell him where he used to live, I can relate.
Tag: Goodblog
Right Reason
I’m slowly getting around to moving my surveillance crew up to “official” status. My number one criterion: Making us think (Making us think –strephon is making us think!) Right Reason definitely falls into that category.
It’s called “The Welblog for Philosophical Conservatism” and it has a whole host of contributors, listed neatly on the right hand column. These are not all longish pieces, but they all deal with… “thick” topics. All the more fun for me.
Go read this.
I’ve been messing around and looking at medblogs lately…I haven’t gotten very far but I do have a few linked under the science and medicine drop-down on the side. One of the sites I’m starting to read is Doctor Mental and he has a good post called “Hope for Freedom” that I think is a good summary about the war in Iraq. It’s not very long, but I liked it. Hope you do too.
Goodblog: Skeptico
[This](http://skeptico.blogs.com/) guy amuses me. His [About Page](http://skeptico.blogs.com/about.html) starts out “My name is Richard Rockley, and I live in San Francisco” and that should just about explain it. It’s like Don Quixote in reverse. He’s surrounded by loopey people and has taken it upon himself to become Dr. Carrasco to us all, constantly pointing out how very unlike a giant each windmill is.
Rockley provides a very amusing daily debunking of some kind of nonsense or another, and he’s well worth the read, especially if you need some more ammunition as to why exactly [Scientology is a scam](http://skeptico.blogs.com/skeptico/2005/03/understanding_s.html). **Everything**, according to Skeptico, must be rationally considered, and subject to some kind of falsifiability, before it can be praised to the sky as truth.
My only problem with him is that he more closely resembles Robert Heinlein than an actual scientist in his screeding. That is, it’s clear he was destined to be a preacher (and preach he does), so his approach isn’t particularly methodical. As a result, his comments on [Intelligent Design](http://skeptico.blogs.com/skeptico/evolution_intelligent_design/index.html), and Christianity, subjects I actually do find pretty compelling, leave something to be desired. His recent post on[“Can your psi do that?”](http://skeptico.blogs.com/skeptico/2005/03/can_your_psi_do.html) reminded me of a [poem](http://www.puretext.us/2002/09/23/scientists-and-poets/) I wrote a while back.
Nevertheless, a good read. I’m moving him to the Science/Medicine category (newly modified from just “medicine” to fit him in. I’m sure Valerie will be so happy).
Imago Dei
This is a late recognition, but I want to point out that Serge at [Imago Dei](http://www.imago-dei.net/imago_dei/) has a really good blog going on. Dentist by day, crack philosopher by night, Serge has provided a lot of grist for the mill since I started checking him out.
I’m starting to realize that “Imago Dei” is more than just the name of the blog. It’s actually the focal point of everything that he writes about on it. *Imago Dei* is the technical term for the doctrine that man is created in the image of God, with the implication that we each have intrensic value and certain characteristics that separate us from the rest of creation. Among these characteristics would be reason, an ethical sense, and certain inalienable rights. So we get discussion on creation vs. evolution, abortion and other human rights issues.
He gets added to the Religion category, which is now too cumbersome and needs to be divided into subcategories.
I have only one disappointment: Never once have I seen a thoroughgoing discussion on why it is that ***everyone*** has to get their wisdom teeth removed.
Goodblog
I’ve added a new category to the blogroll at the right. The “Under Surveillance” category is going to be where I put new blogs that I’ve discovered until such time that I decide to keep them. If I decide again’ it, they’ll discretely disappear, never to be heard from again. If they stay, I’ll move them up to a ”real” category, above, and put a few notes up about why everyone ought to read my newfound blog.
[Pseudo-Polymath](http://pseudopolymath.blogspot.com/), was a quick decision. I have no idea what Pseudo-Polymath means, but the tagline is “Christianity, Ethics, Bike Racing, and current events from right of center.” I’m pretty sure it’s the ‘Christianity’ that I’m going to focus on. At least, He’s going under the “Religion” category.
Mark Olson, whose blog it is, is a good thinker, a good writer, and has a **lot** of interesting things to talk about. Here are a few of them:
neumatikos 