Wanna watch your vision do somersaults?
http://www.patmedia.net/marklevinson/cool/cool_illusion.html
The brain regularly filters sound and sight, discarding things for our conscious evaluation as unimportant and immaterial to the matter at hand. How often do you think we do that in the process of forming opinions and obtaining knowledge?
Just asking.
Ann Coulter and I don’t exactly see eye to eye, but when she’s right, she’s right.
Finally, to throw us totally off balance, Bush did something weird and scary this week: He nominated Ben Bernanke for Fed chairman — A MAN WHO’S TOTALLY QUALIFIED FOR THE JOB. The White House has yet to explain how this [...]
As far as the relationship of the church to the world, it can be expressed as simply as the three words which Paul gave to Timothy: preach the Word. Nowhere are we commissioned to reform the externals. We are not told to wage wars against bootleggers, liquor stores, gamblers, murderers, prostitutes, racketeers, prejudiced persons or [...]
…ping me after five years and apologize for having been a jerk. That’ll do it every time.
I read something over at Positive Liberty that has become a pet peeve of mine. I actually enjoyed the article itself. I have blogged along those lines before. It’s the discussion in the comments that ensued that is bothering me.
I am continually flabbergasted by Christian arrogance. I don’t suppose it’s unique to Christianity. I [...]
Read an article on rising inflation rates this morning.1 Not being much of an economist (I even managed to get through college without taking Econ 101), I’m hardly an expert on the subject. There seem to be two schools of thought on the causation of inflation. The author of the article, Donald Luskin, believes inflation [...]
Apparently while I was enjoying my brief respite from the insanity of life, Indiana lawmakers tried to introduce legislation to regulate assisted reproduction. Before a doctor can apply technologies that can lead to conception, the couple must receive a certificate indicating a satisfactory completion of the required assessment procedures.1
Oh, puhleeze. How transparent can you [...]
Regular readers should know by now I have a very low opinion of government and those who run it. It should then be no surprise that I love this.
mychoice.ca
Hat tip: Nobody’s Business
People are way too busy voting for the lesser of the two evils to vote for any good.
“metalgrid”, Balloon Juice Comments, October 11, 2005
The president’s so stubborn that were he captain of the Titanic, he would have run the ship into a second iceberg to prove he meant to hit the first one.
Rogers Cadenhead, Workbench, [...]
I’ve been in a Nickleback sort of mood the last couple of days. Probably has something to do with being back at work after a week being not at work. Of their albums, I like their most recent, All The Right Reasons, the best, which is to say it has more songs that I enjoy [...]