Carnal Reason

Penguin books will soon release Al Gore’s latest book, “The Assault on Reason”. I imagine it will live up to its title.

Posted on May 19th, 2007 by pwyll
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I thought Protein Wisdom’s recent beatdown of John Edwards was a thing of beauty. Today I read a Wall Street Journal piece on Mr Edwards, and I was pleasantly surprised. A second fine takedown of a truly miserable politician. I recently realized I would prefer even Hillary over Edwards. It hurts to think about it.
The [...]

Posted on May 18th, 2007 by pwyll
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The debut album from Los Lobos del Oeste Los Angeles (aka Los Lobos):
How Will The Wolf Survive?Five Stars with a bullet!
One of the Essentials.
Now go to 2006, with significant personnel changes. Song: My Way; Album: Sacred (2006) — four stars.
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Posted on May 17th, 2007 by Paco Malo
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The stunts start out mind blowing, and get more so. The team stuff about 3/4 through was my favorite.

Sports Acrobatics: The 5 Disciplines

Posted on May 16th, 2007 by pwyll
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I had a few other things I wanted to post, but I’m going to hold off on them, and consider instead a grotesque murder and the national media’s refusal to report it.
The most visible instrument of media bias is the spotlight glare of national attention, as we saw in the Duke non-rape case. [...]

Posted on May 16th, 2007 by pwyll
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I have argued that the arguments of many proponents of anthropogenic global warming are religious, not scientific. Today I learned via Classical Values that Vanity Fair magazine agrees with me.
The Classical Values piece is not to be missed. I content myself with republishing a couple of illustrations borrowed from it. Note to self: I [...]

Posted on May 15th, 2007 by pwyll
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