(Via Rand Simberg) David Janes has a really interesting take on the whole Intelligent Design vs. Evolution dustup that’s been spreading its way throughout the blogosphere like some selfish gene (or was it started by He Who Is Reynolds, the Blind Watchmaker of our digitized little blog world…?): “Why evolution is as good a scientific theory as gravity“ Janes deals with the falsifiability of the theory of evolution. Me, I’m

(Via Rand Simberg) David Janes has a really interesting take on the whole Intelligent Design vs. Evolution dustup that’s been spreading its way throughout the blogosphere like some selfish gene (or was it started by He Who Is Reynolds, the Blind Watchmaker of our digitized little blog world…?): “Why evolution is as good a scientific theory as gravity“ Janes deals with the falsifiability of the theory of evolution. Me, I’m

I don’t normally care much about Nicholas Kristof’s take on things, but I just wanted to point to a few paragraphs in his latest offering (“Gun Show Fantasies”) that I found particularly grating. Kristof begins the column this way: A guard at the entrance to the convention hall politely stopped me. ‘You’ve got to check your guns here,’ he explained. By lucky coincidence, I wasn’t carrying a concealed handgun. But

As a fiction writer, I’m very interested in how words are used. Really I am. But Eric Olsen is really really interested. For sure. And frankly, I find it kind of creepy…

As a fiction writer, I’m very interested in how words are used. Really I am. But Eric Olsen is really really interested. For sure. And frankly, I find it kind of creepy…

For those of you who find such things interesting, there’s a nice, link-rich discussion of Kyoto, fossil fuels, free-market Greenery, etc., going on in the comments section of this LGF post. The original post points to Cap’n Den Beste’s piece on the philosophy of environmentalism (which I’ve previously linked to) — a piece that got Poorman’s Andrew Northrup* all kinds of exercised. I’m one of those skeptics who looks at

This is kinda cool: The Rocklopedia Fakebandica What it is is a comprehensive listing of fictional bands and singers (from TV and the movies), alphabetically “listed in one convenient, scarily obsessive place.” The list contains over 400 references. Two sample entries from the Rocklopedia Fakebandica: Afrodisiacs, The — In the “The Music Man” episode (04/06/82) of biracial sitcom “Diff’rent Strokes” (1978-1986), older brother Willis Drummond (Todd Bridges) has this funkish/R

Famed Aussie anti-nuke activist and physician Dr. Helen Caldicott appeared on last evening’s “Politically Incorrect,” prattling on about the “5000 innocent people” killed by US bombing missions in Afghanistan (“paging Dr. Rall, Dr. Ted Rall“) and about the Chicago “leukemia epidemic” that will result from a catastrophic waste spill (a foregone statistical conclusion, Dr. Caldicott informed us, given the percentage of roadway accidents and the number of trips we’ll need