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June 5, 2010
"Saturday's Links Must Work for a Living"
- What? You're not an Islamophobe? Why in heaven's name not? Straight talk from Pat Condell via Curmudgeonly & Skeptical
- Marilynne Robinson: Can science solve life's mysteries?
"Here is another instance of evolution, to illustrate my point. The universe passed through its unimaginable first moment, first year, first billion years, wresting itself from whatever state of nonexistence, inflating, contorting, resolving into space and matter, bursting into light. Matter condenses, stars live out their generations. Then, very late, there is added to the universe of being a shaped stick or stone, a jug, a cuneiform tablet. They appear on a tiny, teetering, lopsided planet, and they demand wholly new vocabularies of description for reality at every scale. What but the energies of the universe could be expressed in the Great Wall of China, the St Matthew Passion? For our purposes, there is nothing else. Yet language that would have been fully adequate to describe the ages before the appearance of the first artifact would have had to be enlarged by concepts like agency and intention, words like creation, that would query the great universe itself. Might not the human brain, that most complex object known to exist in the universe, have undergone a qualitative change as well? If my metaphor only suggests the possibility that our species is more than an optimised ape, that something terrible and glorious befell us, a change gradualism could not predict – if this is merely another fable, it might at least encourage an imagination of humankind large enough to acknowledge some small fragment of the mystery we are." -- An edited extract from Marilynne Robinson's Absence of Mind
- Even though evil as an idea may have been out of fashion, as a reality it has never gone away. The faces of evil
- I'm drunk on Rimbaud while I read the gin bottle. I invented girls wearing their underwear on the outside of their clothes. Sippican Cottage: Lumber Up. Limbo Down
- You and I both know that if we found Osama, it would be all over. It being 'every reason' we are over there. Only Osama - Cobb
- Never Forget: Obama's not incompetent, he's malevolent. American Thinker Blog: Don't be fooled by Obama's 'incompetence'
- Think twice before wearing the banana skirt.
- The Right Tool for.... Most women consider oral a convenient tool and not an especially fun one to use. Playing The Piper « Jaded Haven
- It’s time for our second annual “first historic toxic organic garden peacock harvest.” Michelle Obama's Mirror's Blog: Peacock Blue. And Green. All Organic
- Surprise! Many of the core policies which Americans have pursued in the hope of achieving stability while consolidating American leadership are making American leadership increasingly difficult in an increasingly unstable world. Terrible Twins: Turkey, Brazil and the Future of American Foreign Policy
- Yes, the Arabs have hundreds of millions, Israel seven. Yes, they have oil, the Israelis none. Yes, libel a Jew and it’s cute, libel the prophet and go into hiding. And yes, Israel is a surrogate often for anti-Americanism. But all that said, it is still strange that so many westerners focus such antipathy and attention on Israel on precisely the topics that they otherwise ignore in other countries. Works and Days » Should Jews Apologize to Turkey or Go Back to Poland and Germany?
Posted by Vanderleun at June 5, 2010 8:49 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.