Archive for November, 2008
Hitchens – God Is Not Great XXIII
Listen to the MP3 I am continuing in my extended review of Christopher Hitchens book “God Is Not Great,” and the question of whether religion makes people behave. There is of course, as Hitchens points out a long list of Christians, to use Hitchens term, misbehaving. But as I said last time, there are deeper […]
Read More..>>Media Fairness??
Henry Neufeld, in a post commenting on my Election Post Mortem questioned the reliability of measuring press fairness based on the ratio of stories, and went on to say, that Debating the fairness of the various outlets is an appropriate exercise in order to try to change the market share of the various outlets, but […]
Read More..>>Hitchens – God Is Not Great XXII
Listen to the MP3 At the end of chapter ten of his book “God Is Not Great,” Christopher Hitchens has a summation more fitting of his book as a whole, then of the chapter. He writes of the lost of belief in what he labels as his “secular faith.” “Thus,” he writes, “dear reader, if […]
Read More..>>Hitchens – God Is Not Great XXI
Listen to the MP3 In Christopher Hitchens’ book “God Is Not Great,” after dealing with the Old and New Testaments, Hitchens, takes on the Koran, but I will leave it to Muslims to respond, and move on to chapter ten, where Hitchens deals with the dual subjects of Miracles and Hell. Or at least that […]
Read More..>>Post Mortem
Finally it is over. One of the worst aspects of this whole campaign has been how long it lasted. For almost all voters who have clearly developed political philosophies and beliefs, or even just clear party affiliations, their minds were made up long before the rest even began thinking about the election. This is especially […]
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