Cathy Young has a worthwhile post up on the subject of Charles Darwin and religion: My statement that “Darwin was a Christian” oversimplified the complex reality of Darwin’s views, and should have been more nuanced. However, the notion that Darwin developed his ‘theory of natural selection as a way to “work out his issues with …
Archives for November 2005
The Hazards of Working From Home
Sometimes working at home is not as easy as it should be. For whatever reason, the paperwork I am trying to use is so much more comfortable than anything else in the house, to include the two catbeds he has in different rooms. And, of course, I am the jerk for daring to wake him …
Razer Diamondback
I just plugged in my new Razer Diamondback, and I have to say, I don’t like it near as much as my old Boomslang. It is too small and too light. Fortunately, I just found a couple Boomslang’s on EBAY that I am buying. Why does it always seem that they are discontinuing every product …
Allawi Talks Smack
Via the comments, former Iraqi PM Iyad Allawi has some very unkind things to say about Iraq today: “People are doing the same as (in) Saddam Hussein’s time and worse. It is an appropriate comparison,” Allawi told British newspaper The Observer. “People are remembering the days of Saddam,” said Allawi, a secular Shi’ite and former …
Full Verbal Powers
Patterico apparently find this Ann Althouse statement as amusing as I did: Jeff Goldstein and John Cole have no idea what I would say if I actually used my full verbal powers to cut them down to size. As I noted at Patterico’s, clearly Ann has no idea the things you guys say about me …
CIFA- Spying on You and Me
Another bad idea: The White House is considering expanding the power of a little-known Pentagon agency called the Counterintelligence Field Activity, or CIFA, which was created three years ago. The proposal, made by a presidential commission, would transform CIFA from an office that coordinates Pentagon security efforts — including protecting military facilities from attack — …
WaPo Poll
This will have people talking: Democrats fumed last week at Vice President Cheney’s suggestion that criticism of the administration’s war policies was itself becoming a hindrance to the war effort. But a new poll indicates most Americans are sympathetic to Cheney’s point. Seventy percent of people surveyed said that criticism of the war by Democratic …