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Animal Wisdom: The Voice of the Serpent
Our family watched Jaws together the other evening -- which, in case you're wondering, I regard as responsible parenting since our kids are basically too young to be genuinely scared by the film. The whole rest of the next day, two-year-old Saul was chattering about the "shark teeth." "Shark teeth g
posted 3:56:33pm Mar. 16, 2010 |
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Reading Wesley Smith: Why the Darwin Debate Matters
If the intelligent-design side in the evolution debate doesn't receive the support you might expect from people who should be allies, that may be because they haven't grasped why the whole thing matters so urgently. I got an email recently from a journalist whom I'd queried on the subject. "All told
posted 5:07:12pm Mar. 15, 2010 |
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The Mission of the Jews
Don't miss my essay over at First Things on the mission of the Jews to the world. This, I think, the key idea that the Jewish community needs to absorb at this very unusual cultural moment, for the time is so, so right. Non-Jews are waiting for us to fulfill the roll God gave us in the Torah. Please
posted 6:14:16pm Mar. 05, 2010 |
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Darwin at the Mountains of Madness: Evolution & the Occult
Of all the regrettable cultural forces that Darwinism helped unleash, perhaps the most surprising and seemingly unlikely is its role in sparking the creation of modern occultism. Charles Darwin himself could not have been less interested in the topic. But no attempt to assess the scope of his legacy
posted 2:04:11pm Mar. 04, 2010 |
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Why Women Will Never Be Orthodox Rabbis
I have sympathy for religious mavericks like Rabbi Avi Weiss of New York, who for ordaining a woman as a rabbi, or "rabba" as he calls her, is under fire from Orthodox rabbinic colleagues on the Rabbinical Council of America. To be Avi Weiss takes guts. Unfortunately for him, as the N
posted 6:10:06pm Feb. 28, 2010 |
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posted June 11, 2009 at 11:03 am
Yes, the original was sufficiently ridiculous that a parody of it falls flat.
Glen Davidson
http://tinyurl.com/6mb592
posted June 11, 2009 at 12:32 pm
They used to say “punning is the lowest form of humor” but I think sarcasm is. It’s cheap, cowardly, self-indulgent hostility from the weak. It’s hit-and-run. It’s pure destruction, causing the target to waste decoding time. But that’s not what I really think about it
posted June 11, 2009 at 2:12 pm
Name-calling, false associations, guilt-by-association (false or not), and smearing are also unimpressive forms of rhetoric, right up there with sarcasm
posted June 12, 2009 at 8:23 pm
I absolutely disagree your link between Darwin and this guy, but DiClaudio’s comeback was not funny and was barely coherent. That falls under the definately-not-worth-my-time list.