Plead the First

Poking around the Internet tonight, I came across this article by Red Phillips from Georgia. He’s thought about the conflict between Evolution and Intelligent Design, and in the wake of Judge Jones’ decision in Dover he’s come up with a novel solution to smooth over the differences: Here is what I propose. States all across […]

Ed Brayton at Dispatches from the Culture Wars has a great idea on how to keep legislators from monkeying around with our school science standards: We don’t allow people to practice in many fields without demonstrating that they have some expertise in it. We won’t even let someone cut hair without a cosmetology license in […]

Backwards City links to an interview with Katee Sackhoff, the actress who plays Starbuck on SciFi’s Battlestar Galactica. At the end of the Backwards City post, there’s this quote from Gravity Lens: I need someone to explain to me how a show about humanity, slaughtered and driven from the twelve worlds they occupy by technology […]

The county commissioners have voted 8-2 in favor of the Board of Elections’ recommendation to use computerized DRE voting machines in Guilford County. One strange statement during the discussion was made by Vice-chairman Steve Arnold, who said (paraphrasing), “All the great ballot stuffing throughout history has been done with paper ballots.” Might that have something […]

Last week, RhinoTimes writer Orson Scott Card gave his take on the Evolution vs. Intelligent Design debate. Though he sounds reasonable in a few places, he seems to have some misconceptions. In writing about the ID concept of Irreducible Complexity, Card says: Basically, Behe’s approach was this: Complex systems in advanced organisms depend on many […]

In this past week’s Rhino Times, John Hammer writes an article in which he touches on the new senior drug program: Some people make bad financial decisions throughout their lives and it appears that if people do that then the government is going to provide for their every need after they retire. Why should people […]

Today at work some friends and I went to Rearn Thai for lunch. They have a new location, conveniently situated directly across the street from the old location. The food is pretty much the same (which is a good thing), but the new building is very different. Their previous location had a cozy feel with […]