"most Christians" rejected religious violence after 30 Yrs War–not counting Holocaust, slavery, colonialism. http://t.co/iOkskepkSp — Ta-Nehisi Coates (@tanehisicoates) October 9, 2014 People who lynched black people thought they were doing Christ's work–and said so, very loudly. — Ta-Nehisi Coates (@tanehisicoates) October 9, 2014 You’d think Sullivan would’ve learned better, by now…
Open Thread: “Be Careful What You Wish For”
Straw in the whirlwind… the Teahadi stench is so strong the neighbors are beginning to notice. Andrew Romano, at Yahoo News: … With one month to go before Election Day, the major storyline about the 2014 midterms seems to be that the GOP is up and the Democrats are down. Republicans will hold the House; …
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Saturday Morning Open Thread: Sometimes ‘Good Enough’ Is Good Enough
Back when state-of-the-art communications technology was a xerox copier or a really affordable long-distance landline plan, my friends and I would joke about (Book of) “Kells Syndrome”: The longer a letter or voice-machine message or writing project sat unanswered, the more daunting crafting a “worthy” response became, to the point where only an impossible level …
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Late Night Open Thread: The Future On The TV
Our avatars, let us show you them! Not quite Ed Sullivan introducing America to the Beatles. Hatsune Miku: The name of the character comes from merging the Japanese words for first (初 hatsu?), sound (音 ne?) and future (Miku (ミク?) sounds like a nanori reading of future, 未来, normally read as “mirai”[2]), referring to her …
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Friday Recipe Exchange: Chilly Enough for Chili
From our Food Goddess, TaMara: I’m having difficulty typing this because at the moment I’m sitting on the couch with a Great Dane draped over my shoulders like Grandma’s shawl. I’m not sure why, just where he landed this morning. And…now he’s snoring. I will do my best. Sometimes JeffreyW and I have this odd …
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Friday Evening Open Thread: Find Your Own Pitch, Robodude
(Warning: continuing autoplay) From the Washington Post: Christopher Schmidt was flying a quadcopter with a camera attached to it at Magazine Beach Park in Cambridge, Mass., and taking in views of the Boston skyline when a hawk decided to take back its airspace. Magazine Beach, incidentally, has that name because its first use as a …
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Ebola There, Ebola Here
Latest development, per an “NBC exclusive”: The first trial of an Ebola vaccine in Africa has started, researchers said Thursday, with the vaccination of three health care workers in Mali… It’ll be months before any vaccine would be available, and even then it will be a small amount, probably used to protect health care workers. …