Monthly Archives: December 2011

This review in American Scientist claims that, despite its subtitle, Patricia Churchland’s book doesn’t tell us much about morality. And in a sense, if the description is true (and I’ll find out soon), then I am inclined to agree since I … Continue reading →

What Are The Goals of the Atheist Movement? | Greta Christina’s Blog. Or more to the point for me. What are my goals in wasting time on all this nonsense? There must be some, so perhaps I’ll add more here … Continue reading →

Afghanistan: Imprisoned Rape Victim Freed. – where in this context, apparently “freed” means transferred into the permanent custody of her rapist.

According to this ( Taxing the 1%: Why the top tax rate could be over 80% | vox – Research-based policy analysis and commentary from leading economists), lowering the top tax rate just meant that the top 1%  had more reason … Continue reading →

This annotated Flight-Data Recorder Transcript from Air France 447  (from Popular Mechanics) makes it clear that the real problem was an egregious control system design flaw which seems to defeat the main purpose of dual controls and prevented the more senior pilots … Continue reading →

How could this be real? Obviously, anything carrying such valuable secrets would have to have a 100% reliable built in self-destruct mechanism set to go off whenever it fell below a certain altitude anywhere away from its home base.

It may have been completely predictable that I would decide to write this  response to the latest round of  blog posts from Sean Carroll and others, but that does not diminish the significance (or validity) of the thought processes and intentionality behind … Continue reading →

In the course of proposing a kind of religion that is free from superstition, Julian Baggini, in a post at the Guardian’s ‘Comment is free’ blog, says: if you cannot say you agree that “Religious belief does not, and should not, require … Continue reading →