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Daily Archives: October 15th, 2007

Protecting the children: Swedish style

Guess what? It is possible to run a government on rational principles. Via Pharyngula, we learn that Sweden is protecting its children from a public menace that our government actually encourages: The Swedish government is to crack down on the role religion plays in independent faith schools. The new rules will include a ban on […]

Annals of our spineless Congress

Will our Democrats that lined up to quell the threat to the Republic that was MoveOn do anything about this: Three telecommunications companies have declined to tell Congress whether they gave U.S. intelligence agencies access to Americans’ phone and computer records without court orders, citing White House objections and national security. Director of National Intelligence […]

Great cartoon

Worth a thousand words:

The Decline of Baseball and mathematical reasoning

According to Selena Roberts of the New York Times, football is up and baseball’s in decline. As a confirmed baseball fan who has zero interest in football, I am somewhat sanguine about this prediction, since, at my advanced age, I can recall similar predictions that were made 30 years ago. That being said, she has […]