Great minds think alike. Consider the case of Doonesbury author Gary Trudeau, via his cartoon above, and Syrian terrorist Abu Ibrahim, quoted in the Washington Post:
“They think jihad will stop if they kill hundreds of us in Iraq,” Abu Ibrahim said with a note of defiance. “They don’t know what they are facing. [...]
Posted on July 24th, 2005 by pwyll
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A reader asked why he could not post comments, and so began a sordid tale whose painful details I will spare you.
The short version: when I first built the site, I hacked a WordPress theme without regard for WordPress conventions. I made things look more or less the way I wanted, but in doing [...]
Posted on July 24th, 2005 by pwyll
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Microsoft wants to patent emoticons. Really.
Posted on July 23rd, 2005 by pwyll
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Christopher Hitchens, in the Weekly Standard:
But another reflection now deposes the preceding one. In 2001 there was an enemy to hit back at, and some business to conclude with the Taliban. Since then, there has been unfinished business with Saddam Hussein and his notorious fedayeen. But from now on, we must increasingly confront the fact [...]
Posted on July 22nd, 2005 by pwyll
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I once tried to imagine what a perfectly evil god might do.
As the single existing entity, He would have no way to express his malice, ergo He would create victims. Billions at least, perhaps infinitely many. Most to be tortured, forever of course. Some to be feted as pets, perhaps to heighten the [...]
Posted on July 10th, 2005 by pwyll
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A few days ago I saw a bumper sticker that said “God is good”. Certainly the Bible says so, dozens if not hundreds of times.
What does it means to say that God is good? Consider a similar claim, “Smith is good”. Smith is a man, and it is asserted that Smith is good. What [...]
Posted on July 1st, 2005 by pwyll
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