Fred Thompson can’t be back. He hasn’t been anywhere.
Month: January 2008
Quote For The Day
"It is a bit of a problem, the title "Atheist"–No one really wants to be defined by what they do not believe in. We haven’t yet settled on a name, but you wouldn’t expect a Baptist minister to go around calling himself an a-Darwinist. But it is crucial that people who do not have a sky god and don’t have a set of supernatural beliefs assert their belief in moral values and in love and in the transcendence that they might experience in landscape or art or music or sculpture or whatever. Since they do not believe in an afterlife, it makes them give more valence to life itself. The little spark that we do have becomes all the more valuable when you can’t be trading off any moments for eternity," – Ian McEwen, in TNR.
Male Post-Abortion Syndrome
Real? Or political?
Let There Be Light
The joys of camera shuttering and light sabers. More cool art from Eric Staller here. And here.
The Pope Approves
Yes – my ashes will be able to be scattered off the tip of the Cape and I can still have a Catholic funeral. Thanks, Benedict.
One More Reason To Be A Dog Person
Altogether now – awww:
A pet dog missed the family’s dead cat so much that he dug up his grave and brought the body back into the house… "Then he pulled him into the basket and went to sleep next to him. Arthur’s coat was gleaming white. Oscar had obviously licked him clean. It must have taken him nearly all night."
150,000 Deaths Since “Shock and Awe”
Megan – who’s spent some time crunching casualty numbers and debunking the Lancet study – thinks this number should be taken seriously. It’s a horrifying number.
About Last Night
My take on the South Carolina debate is here.
Will Gore Endorse?
Grist’s David Roberts thinks not:
It seems pretty obvious to me that he’d endorse Obama. But he has reached something of a detente with Hillary, and will need to be able to work with her should she win.
Then there’s the trauma of Dean.
When Romney Discovered Reagan
At Reagan’s funeral?
The Dish 