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For many years there has been a divide between those who are not religious but think that promoting science should not exclude the religious, and those who are not religious and think that no defence of science should ever admit a religious believer at all. That is not quite the way they would put it of course, but the divide is between “accommodationists” and “exclusivists”.
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Even in a somewhat scholarly effort to look at these issues, apparently Rosen can't even demonstrate his points with music, because copyright forbids it, and requires hefty licensing fees
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The Branch Plant in Milledgeville is on the list.
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The entire bizarre story of Palin's fifth pregnancy; the Dish's exhaustive one-post summary of all the facts compiled by the New York Times and the Anchorage Daily News. Try and make sense of it if you can.
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Parsing the far-right social conservatives defamation of Kevin Jennings, a decent human being who has dedicated his life to making public schooling easier for LGBT kids and teens, so that they can reverse his appointment as head the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools.
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The definitive tell-all.
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Ritch C. Savin-Williams, a professor of developmental psychology at Cornell University, recently completed a survey of 160 men, straight and gay, and found that gay men provided valuable social insights to straight men.
“The idea is that a gay friend will be more in tune to women and more likely to have female friends,” Professor Savin-Williams said. “And it’s a stereotype, but straight men also feel they can talk to gay men about fashion and ask them if they’re looking O.K.”
Bryan Miller, 37, a director at a financial software firm in New York who has had several gay roommates, echoed that view. “A gay man’s advice on women is the only advice you can take to the bank,” he said. “They’re guys, but they’re not in competition with you.”
After Harvard University passed a similar plan last February, faculty members at the University of Kansas began to research how they could adopt one.In April the University of Maryland rejected a plan to allow for open access to its research journals.
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Collection of Walter Olson's mostly favorable coverage of Cass Sunstein.
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I'm a big fan of Sunstein and an ardent foe of Chambliss.
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A significant cut was made to Universal Pictures’ “Bruno,” excising a comic scene involving LaToya Jackson, just a few hours after her brother, pop star Michael Jackson, was pronounced dead at a Los Angeles hospital.
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HIST 119: The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877 (Spring, 2008) Nearly 30 hours. Absolutely terrific!
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CRAZY WRONG: "Expanding copyright law to bar online access to copyrighted materials without the copyright holder’s consent, or to bar linking to or paraphrasing copyrighted materials without the copyright holder’s consent . . ."
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FROM THE POST: During the Palin/Letterman kerfuffle, the smartest thing written or said came from Alaskan blogger Shannyn Moore, whose diary "Top 10 Reasons Sarah Palin's 'Outrage' is Misplaced and A Little Late..." received far too little notice, even though it was picked up by Huffington Post. As Moore wittily revealed, there was, unfortunately, absolutely nothing new or unique about Letterman's joke, it's just that Palin had run out of more appealing options:
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Frank Rich: "Now, roughly 75 percent of Americans support an end to Don’t Ask, and gay issues are no longer a third rail in American politics. Gay civil rights history is moving faster in the country, including on the once-theoretical front of same-sex marriage, than it is in Washington. If the country needs any Defense of Marriage Act at this point, it would be to defend heterosexual marriage from the right-wing “family values” trinity of Sanford, Ensign and Vitter."
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Michael Kinsley in 1984 on Michael Jackson: "What's happened to Michael Jackson isn't too different from what they used to do to young male singers in Europe a few centuries ago, to keep their voices sweet. In another way, it resembles the exploitation of child stars like Judy Garland in the heyday of the Hollywood studios. In fact, what American capitalism has done to Michael Jackson is even a bit like what the Soviets do to their women athletes."
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An unidentified female was also at the campsite.
Musselwhite, a Republican, was elected to the City Council in 2000. He served on the council for six years, including as mayor of the town. In 2006, he lost a bid for a state Senate seat.
Musselwhite previously served as deacon of First Baptist Church in Gainesville.
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A YouTube spokesperson said that the new max is 2 GB. It’s clear that HD videos are becoming a significant portion of the new YouTube library, only six months since the site enabled them. YouTube raised the video upload limit to 1 GB from 100 MB in only September 2008.
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Dash says, "This was probably the one clip of Michael Jackson I wish everybody had seen."
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...having just read a new book by Sherry Wolf called Sexuality and Socialism: History, Politics, and Theory of LGBT Liberation (Haymarket) a few days ago, I am trying to process the information that there were sex-change operations in Soviet Russia during the 1920s. (This was abolished, of course, once Stalinism charted its straight and narrow path to misery.) Who knew? Who, indeed, could even have imagined?
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I AM EAGER TO SEE IT. THE TIMING IS WONDERFULLY FORTUITOUS: "The movie doesn't come out until July 10th, but I was invited to an early screening in Hollywood.
I'll leave the reviewing to the professionals, but I will say that if the audience I saw the movie with is any indication, Bruno will be a big hit."
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INTERESTING: New research from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has found substantial reductions in binge drinking since the national drinking age was set at 21 two decades ago, with one exception: college students. The rates of binge drinking in male collegians remain unchanged, but the rates in female collegians have increased dramatically.
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Harvard University announced this morning that it plans to lay off 275 staff members as the college grapples with budget pressures caused by a precipitous endowment decline.
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what might be the most shocking thing of all about this Mark Sanford scandal...is that it actually fits the standard adultery narrative, where the cheater falls in love. And what’s fascinating is how much people are embarrassed for him because of it, which doesn’t make much sense to me, since I thought the emails that were published weren’t anything unusual, though definitely private.
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Mark Sanford, this anti-gay Republican politician from South Carolina has helped make the argument for gay marriage in a way that few of us have been able to. Take this passage, from Maria, about their feelings for one another: "Sometimes you don't choose things, they just happen ..." Could there be a more universal, recognizable definition of how feelings of love have no identifiable provenance? Even though it was written by a woman who seems quite heterosexual, can anyone who is homosexual avoid hearing echoes of "I didn't choose to be gay" in this expression of futility in the face of love? Maria goes on, in words that any lesbian or gay man who has finally stopped resisting their truest, inner self could recognize: "I can't redirect my feelings and I am very happy with mine towards you."
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The headline is especially interesting since the text tells a different story. I'm with Pollis: "In a phone interview with the Bay Area Reporter Tuesday, June 23 Polis once again defended his attendance at both events. While the Democratic Party has its faults, it is far better in terms of LGBT issues than the Republican Party, he said."
"I am a Democrat and a proud Democrat. Our party is not perfect but we need to make it better," said Polis. "There is an enormous difference between the Republican and Democratic Party on equality issues."
It's as if the whole Baby Boom is dying. It has to be a cultural moment of some kind. McMahon, Fawcett, Jackson & Cronkite. Unparalleled. It gives Mark Sanford ca break.
For future reference: Example of the freak-out Google Street View causes
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Shocking: "Online students are much more likely to drop out of courses than their campus-based peers, according to a new study that confirms earlier research on what has been a longstanding concern in the distance-education industry." Note THE DISTANCE-EDUCATION INDUSTRY,
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Nestlé USA recalled its Toll House refrigerated cookie dough on Friday after health officials linked the dough to infections from the bacteria E. coli in as many as 66 people in 28 states.
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I wouldn't do that.
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I don't often find myself in agreement with The Corner: "tate, local, and federal governments should take immediate legislative and administrative action to implement nearly everything in the report. (Most of the practices are already commonplace in the federal and better-run state systems.) Although giving trial lawyers more business rarely makes sense, Congress may also want to reconsider laws that make it very difficult for prisoners to sue prison authorities absent concrete evidence of physical harm. It’s quite possible that many legitimate prison-rape claims get thrown out of court under current laws. And prison rape needs to stop."
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I'll be watching the reception and buzz around this movie, "Brüno, a movie that, in mercilessly exploiting the discomfort created when straight men are ambushed by aggressive gayness, happens to (surprise!) expose homophobia."
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Federal microbiologists and food safety investigators have descended on the Danville, Va., plant that makes Nestlé's refrigerated cookie dough, trying to crack a scientific mystery surrounding a national outbreak of illness from E. coli 0157, a deadly strain of bacteria, which has been linked to the product.
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duh!
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First Lady Michelle Obama hosts an event focused on health and nutrition, including the harvesting of vegetables from the White House Kitchen Garden on the South Lawn of the White House.
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A New Way to Enjoy Entertainment on your TV & PC gets better,
Sanford said he was crying in Argentina. Madonna's Miami Mix:
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Did you know it's legal to keep backyard chickens in the City of Atlanta? In fact, it's legal in every city and town in Georgia except Lawrenceville, but according to The City Chicken, that law is only enforced if someone complains.
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