“Haven’t you ambition enough to wish that your husband should be something better than a Middlemarch doctor?” said Lydgate, letting his hands fall on to his wife’s shoulders, and looking at her with affectionate gravity….
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Neo-Determinism, or Pre-Crime Pre-Made is Predictable
Earlier this morning I was trying to begin to really grapple with the determinism of guys like Pinker and Dennett (these are liberal determinists–meaning they have good intentions, really, they promise with a spoon full…
The Dog In Me
As I am no fan of watching televised sports and would go so far as to be antagonistic towards organized sports devised as part of our educational system not to mention being bilious on the…
Elmer’s, Wood, or Crazy? The Glue of Groups
Hot on the heels of my discovery that I am likely a very tiny member of a very tiny minority of people in this country because I find the massive number of God-Science sites utterly…
Moments of Execution
It has been pointed out that the US economy is bogged down with corporatism’s replication of middle management. We lay off actual workers and rescind public programs in order to find more ways to pay…
Seeking the Safety of Certainty: Totalitarian Minds in Religion and Science
Guiding my thinking is the very clear recognition that I am nearly always a partialist who at times spouts a partialism that upon reflection seems a tad embarrassing. I know some things fairly well in…
Young Earth Activists and the Gap Theory
Folks are working very hard to “prove” their “faith” is “scientific.” I had no idea it was such a massive industry. A Facebook comment today on this story, “Vi Simpson: The Woman Who Punked The…
Planned Parenthood and the Planned Corporate Patriarchy
In a post on Salon.com in the aftermath of the Susan G. Komen Foundation’s decision to withdraw funding from Planned Parenthood writer Irin Carmon offers illuminate us on, “Why the right hates Planned Parenthood.” (emphasis…
While You Still Have a Body: Rethinking Everything
The world dominated by humans operates outside of our frame of reference. No matter how hard you try it’s hard to think about the muddle when you are surrounded by it. It thinks you. Forgive…
The Locus of Measurable Social Replication: Opt OUT and Make It New
Public schools are, like America, relatively new in history. Especially schools as conceived as a public “good” available to all children. But one can readily argue that men in power never conceived of schools as…