(Pearls Before Swine) – Stephan Pastis:
“Larry! Someone hacked into our online bank account” …
Archive for September, 2015
Hacked
2015-09-28Weniger heucheln dank Snowden
2015-09-26(SPIEGEL::Netzpolitik) – Christian Stöcker:
Ja, wir hacken. Aber bei der Wirtschaftsspionage wollen wir uns ein wenig zurückhalten. So könnte man die Cyber-Absprache der USA mit China umschreiben. Immerhin: Das ist ehrlicher als bisher – dank Edward Snowden. …
A Salute to John Boehner
2015-09-25(Raging Pencils) – Mike Stanfill:
Raging Pencils presents a salute to John Boehner and his many, unforgettable accomplishments as Speaker of the House. …
How Cesare Borgia became Jesus
2015-09-17(OMG Facts) – Bruno:
Cesare Borgia was the son of Pope Alexander VI. He is said to have influenced all European art depicting Jesus. It’s widely accepted that the classic depiction of Jesus is not accurate, because Jesus would have not have looked like a white European. Many scholars believe that Cesare Borgia was the basis for some depictions of Jesus that eventually became the standard look that is used until today. …
Crazy Talk at the Republican Debate
2015-09-16(NYTimes) – Editorial Board:
Eleven presidential candidates had three prime-time hours on the national stage to tell the American people why they should lead the country.
Nobody forced them to be there. They were there freely, armed with the best arguments they and their policy advisers had come up with, to make their cases as seasoned politicians, business leaders and medical professionals – the Republican Party’s “A-Team,” as one of them, Mike Huckabee, said at the outset.
And that, America, is frightening. …
Bernie Sanders at Liberty University
2015-09-15(FTB) – Mano Singham:
Bernie Sanders spoke recently at Liberty University. This institution was founded by the late Jerry Falwell in 1971 and is an evangelical Christian college. You can get a good sense of how religion is threaded into every discipline by its statement about its Arts and Sciences curriculum.
So how could Sanders connect with such a student body? He seems to have decided, wisely I think, to appeal to the idealism of young people and used the idea of justice and morality to find common ground with them while not ignoring the differences on major issues. …
Paul Dirac on Religion
2015-09-14(FTB) – Mano Singham:
In one chapter of Werner Heisenberg’s book Physics and Beyond that is titled Science and Religion, Heisenberg recounts a series of conversations that he had about the nature of science and religion with Wolfgang Pauli, Niels Bohr, and Dirac, a quartet of giants of physics, during the famous Solvay Conference of 1927 where the foundations of quantum mechanics were thrashed out by the major figures involved in its creation.
While all four agreed that religion was pretty much useless, it was Dirac’s comments that caught my eye because, as was his style in all things, he was refreshingly honest and direct and this passage is worth quoting in full, partly for that reason and partly because we rarely hear of Dirac’s view on this topic. …
Bolts out of the Pink
2015-09-13
Sex Ed vs. Abstinence-Only Education
2015-09-12(The Onion) – With many states still defending their right to withhold information on sex from public school curricula, Americans are left to weigh the relative benefits of explicit sexual education programs versus those that teach only abstinence and promote health through celibacy. Here is a side-by-side comparison of what these programs offer. …
Wings of the Butterfly Nebula
2015-09-11(Slate::Bad Astronomy) – Phil Plait:
One of the most spectacular planetary nebulae is M2-9, a doubled-lobed beastie very roughly 2000 light years away. …
The Martian South Pole
2015-09-10(Planetary Blogs) – Jason Davis:
It was a clear, sunny day in the southern Martian highlands last February when the European Space Agency’s Mars Express spacecraft flew overhead at about 10,000 kilometers. …
God’s Way
2015-09-09
Casting “Clown Car ’16, the Movie”
2015-09-08(Rolling Stone Politics) – Matt Taibbi:
Jeff Garlin as Chris Christie, Kirk Cameron as Rick Santorum, Justin Timberlake as Rand Paul – the possibilities are thrilling. …
rollingstone…casting-clown-car
Gender Mainstreaming
2015-09-07(Telepolis) – Till Nikolaus von Heiseler:
Ist Gendertheorie Aufklärung oder ideologische Verblendung? …
The Moral Compass
2015-09-07(Guardian Comment Cartoons) – Martin Rowson:
George Osborne claims Britain is morally and practically obliged to provide assistance with ‘a head as well as a heart’. …
theguardian…2015/sep/06/martin-rowson
Two Years, Eight Months and Twenty‑Eight Nights
2015-09-06(Guardian Books) – Ursula K Le Guin:
There are clear parallels with Salman Rushdie’s own experience in this ever-unfolding fairytale that, through magic and myth, meditates brilliantly on storytelling, fanaticism and life’s agonies and choices. …
theguardian…2015/sep/04/two-years…review
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