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A correspondent was recently asking me about a particular argument naturalists sometimes use. Now, to me, this argument sounds so incredibly...

The rest of the family is recovered, and I'm on the road to recovery. Being able to breathe again more or less freely is nice. I hope la...

2 1/2 years ago or so I read the story below on, of all sites, Little Green Footballs, in a comments thread. I have gone back since then and...

Most of you will have seen this post of mine already at W4, but for anyone who hasn't...My husband found an incredible, amazing quote fr...

I am blogging this in multiple places to bring it to the attention of the Google bots for searching researchers. My thanks to Zippy who has...

We, corporately, have a cold. That is, my family is now passing around a real doozy of a cold. So far I have been mostly spared, except for ...

I conjecture that the present economic difficulties of the U.S. will strengthen the grip of political correctness in both business and in hi...

I have been doing taxes. This is not fun. It will give me a break to pass along something funny. (HT Esteemed husband) If you want to read a...

Among the many vital life skills I'm going to have to convey to my poor children before sending them off to live on their own, one that ...

On What's Wrong with the World I have a very brief post connecting part of the quotation below to Britain's refusal to admit Geert...

This is great. Friedman makes some excellent points. Donahue's loaded questions are posed as if there is some actual alternative polity ...

Or is that "schmaltz"? I'm too lazy to go look it up. The one and only Julie Andrews and "Our Love is Here To Stay."

The audio is now up of my interview last night (Feb. 1) on the James Allen Show in Phoenix. Go here and choose the top item in the audio ar...

I know nothing about country music, but I just heard this song for the first time at Stony Creek Digest , the blog of my cyber-friend Jeff C...

I want to announce that next week, February 1, I will be interviewed on the James Allen Show , a talk radio show out of Phoenix, AZ, on reli...

I have few readers here who do not also read What's Wrong with the World, but for those few, I want to highlight my new post there call...

...about something this week. But it certainly isn't the inauguration of Barack Obama, that's for sure. It's the commutation of...

Update : Document found. Thanks to Jonathan Prejean, who directed me to LEXIS/NEXIS. Yeah, I know: Why didn't I check that myself first....

And a big HT to reader Stuart for suggesting imeem as a source of Glad clips. I'd been looking all over Youtube for a good recording of ...

Okay, I know I'm blogging more often here than usual, but can you believe this garbage??? An AP news story headlined "5 Pirates D...