Here’s to Canada

Originally shared by Greg Laden, but more appropriate for today I snagged it from Larry Moran (who is actually Canadian.)

More on the history of Dominion Day/Canada Day.

Tomorrow on AM 950, I am going to try to keep Robert and August civil. I’ll be the ringmaster in a fifteen-rounder, an argument between a Conservative Christian and a Liberal Atheist over the state of morality in America now that society is edging back towards enlightenment and modernism.

A Self-Told Joke

Most of the far right wing (as reflected in such lumoinous journals as Human Events and WorldNut Daily) demonstrate a complete lack of understanding when it comes to science.  They consistently make bad mistakes when it comes to topics of evolution, climatology and petroleum geology.  They make elementary mistakes, easily detected by people who were paying even slight attention to their teachers in secondary education science classes.  With their lack of understanding on these issues, I think it is far to commit the ad hominem fallacy when it comes to questions of economics and history.  The reason I say that is because if they can’t grasp the hard sciences, they demonstrate a lack of critical thinking skills necessary to make decisions on the “soft sciences” of economics and history.

Pat Buchanan writes often on economics and history, which are both very open to interpretation because the observations of raw data and their analysis are fuzzy.  He makes authoratative proclamations on these subjects, and it can be hard to disprove what he has to say.  I call into question his conclusions on subjects which are more tenuous than biology when he comes up with columns exemplified by this one:

The second is publication of “The End of Darwinism: And How a Flawed and Disastrous Theory Was Stolen and Sold,” by Eugene G. Windchy, a splendid little book that begins with Huxley’s lament.

That Darwinism has proven “disastrous theory” is indisputable.

“Karl Marx loved Darwinism,” writes Windchy. “To him, survival of the fittest as the source of progress justified violence in bringing about social and political change, in other words, the revolution.”

In this little review he  manages to mangle history, economics and biology.  Greg thinks he should be booted from MSNBC.

Selective Adherence to the Bible for Moral Guidance

Just a snippet to open a discussion on moral relativity:

Message from Leo

Babies Would Just be Things That Need Food

H/t to Hemant

Bing is Not a Search Engine

Bing is thirteen-year-old kid experiencing a completely foreign country and land for the first time (his trip to Wyoming was fun, but doesn’t count in this regard.)

He has a blog, that I am helping him with (and so are his Mom and his uncle,) and he will be updating with what he sees and does while there. His mom is paying for the trip, and to help her out I have set up a PayPal donation link to defray the costs.

Here is the blog “Bing Goes to Japan.” He has landed safely!

Please help with whatever you can. Thanks!

Science is a Dirty Bastard

In my favorite episode of My Three Sons, Chip Douglas wants to join a club that his friends have started. They cook up a series of tasks for him to complete for his initiation, and when he completes his tasks they will teach him the “dirty little secret.” He is dying of curiosity, so that no matter how absurd the tasks his dogged determination carries him through so that he can reach the Holy Grail of the “dirty little secret.”

Read the rest at Quiche Moraine.

May We Never Meet Again

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Okay, So We Aren’t Going Up Against Beeb Censorship

But we are going to have a good show, then head over to Q. Cumbers afterwards.