alQpr

Commentary - Of Pills and Profits: In Defense of Big Pharma
“If you like the way Canada operates its health-care system, you will never like the way Big Pharma does drugs.”

AlterNet: Readers Write: The Growing Threat of Right-Wing Christians
Does faith have a role in politics? AlterNet readers react to an article about right-wing Christians — and end up questioning the legitimacy of religion itself.

Contrary Brin: The Decadence Excuse… The Song Sung by All Our Foes. comments on the anti-intellectual attitudes of bushite right wing america

This article about Wikipedia in the New Yorker continues the debate about how much need there is for “authority” in order for such a resource to be useful.
My own view is that all information sources should be taken with a grain of salt, and that it is foolish to expect otherwise, but that (especially [...]

Reviews: ‘Illusions of identity’ by Kenan Malik | Prospect Magazine August 2006 issue 125

Philosophy of Real Mathematics: Dawid on probabilities

Producing mathematics for the Web is a posting by Zac in Singapore on his ’squareCircleZ’ blog about the tools he uses to produce his Interactive Mathematics website

In this posting on “Modern day gnosticism” edTech blogger Wesley Fryer revisits an earlier discussion of Elaine Pagel’s book “Beyond Belief : The Secret Gospel of Thomas.”
This may be someone worth engaging with regard to why people adopt religion (but I won’t be banking on it).

Contrary Brin: An Interesting Guest Posting…

Push the Third Button Twice: The Pig and the Box comes from ‘MCM’ in Victoria via Michael Geist and Stephen Downes.
It’s about the despicable attempt by the Canadian Copyright Crew to introduce biased materials into the early education curriculum

squareCircleZ: Should we teach gambling in math classes?

Mark Twain’s “The Late Benjamin Franklin”

This post was linked to from an article in AlterNet on the “Christian” right wing tactic of publishing home addresses of oppponents.

In Evil and the Satan Hypothesis mwillet says:
Doesn’t it make sense just to live a good life and avoid doing anything you will later be ashamed of? That’s not to presume there is a life after death, just a working hypothesis that there is probably going to be a day after today and most people [...]

Does Islam deserve respect?

This extended exchange of emails between an atheist and a christian posted by Martin Willett doesn’t really resolve anything but may eventually lead somewhere

Debate Unlimited by Martin Willett

Mashup.DarwinianWeb.com: Creating my first Google map by hand

democracyarsenal.org on the Guantanamo ruling
It’s time to really expose the falseness of the Bushites’ claims to represent what are claimed to be true American values (or, less likely, for them to show the world that they can truly accept and live up to those values)