tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55320402012-01-30T13:32:36.351-08:00Philosophy, Politics and Economics from an Unrepentantly Liberal PerspectiveH. E.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12587322265256780784noreply@blogger.comBlogger4471100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5532040.post-78683893196949162062011-09-10T18:36:00.000-07:002011-09-10T18:40:09.527-07:00

http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2011/09/09/bloomberg-sundays-911-ceremony-a-civil-not-religious-occasion/ Mayor Michael Bloomberg is defending his decision to exclude religious leaders from New York City's commemoration of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, saying Friday that "government shouldn't be forcing" religion "down people's throats."  Fuck you Michael Bloomberg! How is it "

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US judges rule for teacher who called creationism 'superstitious nonsense'http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2011/0819/US-judges-rule-for-teacher-who-called-creationism-superstitious-nonsense/%28page%29/2 “Aristotle … argued, you know, there sort of has to be a God. Of course that’s nonsense,” Corbett said according to a transcript of his lecture. “I mean, that’s what you call deductive

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The President Surrenders on Debt Ceiling - NYTimes.com: "The President Surrenders- Sent using Google Toolbar"That stinking wimp Obama has sold me down the river--and my kids. I'm furious!We can't win because liberalism has become a style instead of an ideology. Liberals eat arugula and lite healthy things--not nasty red meat gotten by killing animals. Liberals are nice. So in December when BO

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Religious QuandryNow here's a question. Is religion really just a mechanism for social control and, in particular, for promoting a socially conservative agenda? Is there any more, or other, to it than that?I'm inclined to think that there is. And I have no sympathy with the standard socially conservative agenda--on sexuality, abortion or "family values." But what else is there to religion now, as

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Mladic’s Arrest: What Did Serbia Know? by Charles Simic | NYRBlog | The New York Review of Books: "The big question is why the Serbian government waited so long to arrest him, because it is difficult to believe that security services had completely lost his trail after he ceased to be protected by the army some years back.- Sent using Google Toolbar"Why? Because the Serbs are a primitive tribal

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Solution: Give Everybody Money!I've been reading Nixonland, a journalistic history of Nixon and his times--times I remember from my college days, when there were riots and protests, sit-ins, teach-ins and occasionally love-ins, and when I marched for something I knew not what.One thing I learnt in college was that rich people were in just about every way better than poor people. I came from a

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Secular Studies MajorI don't know whether to be surprised that it happened or surprised that it took so long: a California college has become the first in the nation to offer a major in secularism.Ho-hum. More of the usual New Atheist boosterism, harping yet again on the same old theme: in a world dominated by bigoted Christians brave atheists are at last asserting themselves and being

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The Revolution is On!I wonder now how deeply implicated the US was in keeping the despots in the Middle East in power. I'd suspect lots. And I was taken in by the propaganda--was blind and now I see.The real question always was: "Do we want these countries to like us or to be like us." The propaganda intentionally muddles the two questions. So the Bush administration pushed for regime change by

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Guest Voices: Organized religion is big business - On Faith at washingtonpost.com: "- Sent using Google Toolbar" Big Businesses famously roll on in this country because we're scared of letting them fail. And if there truly is an American business that's too big to send swirling down the economy's drain, it's the Organized Religion Industry (O.R.I)....The premise of the O.R.I, that you need

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Egyptians Muster for a New Protest as Crackdown Widens - NYTimes.com: "- Sent using Google Toolbar"Hello, Egyptians (if anyone is reading this). I don't know how else to sent this message but...please, please keep fighting! I cheered for the green revolution in Iran, that's now underground but which I believe will emerge. Please keep fighting. And I can only say "please" because it isn't my life,

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The War on Logic - NYTimes.com: "And it’s not about the money. As I tried to explain in my last column, the modern G.O.P. has been taken over by an ideology in which the suffering of the unfortunate isn’t a proper concern of government, and alleviating that suffering at taxpayer expense is immoral, never mind how little it costs.- Sent using Google Toolbar"

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Field DayChristians In Karachi Comes Under Attack From Islamists: "KARACHI, PAKISTAN (ANS) — Local Pakistani Christians and the family of a Christian youth are facing potential death threats and the terrorization of “dire consequences” following the elopement and marriage of a Christian young man who has converted to Islam and his young Muslim bride.- Sent using Google Toolbar"So. Converting to

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Why Can't Christianity Be More Like Yoga?Hindu Group Stirs Debate in Fight for Soul of Yoga - NYTimes.com: "- Sent using Google Toolbar"[A] group of Indian-Americans has ignited a surprisingly fierce debate in the gentle world of yoga by mounting a campaign to acquaint Westerners with the faith that it says underlies every single yoga style followed in gyms, ashrams and spas: Hinduism. The

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Medicare, Death Panels and the New ElitismDoes Obamacare really cut Medicare Benefits to Senior Citizens? - Rick Ungar - The Policy Page - Forbes: "- Sent using Google Toolbar"I still remember the books I was supposed to read for discussion during Freshman Orientation Week when I was an undergraduate. Being diligent, I actually read them. One was The Invisible Man, a novel about racism, by Ralph

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Why the Rage will Never EndOp-Ed Columnist - The Rage Won’t End on Election Day - NYTimes.com: "- Sent using Google Toolbar"The lower classes--the rednecks and white ethnics--are angry because they're locked out of the good life by gross economic inequality and lack of opportunity. So they turn their anger against the liberal elite--people who live that good life--by voting against progressive

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Culture Wars: The Paradox of Choice @font-face { font-family: "Cambria"; }@font-face { font-family: "Adobe Caslon Pro"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; } Maximizers strive for the very best; satisficers settle for good enough. Economist Herbert

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Theological Trade-OffsJust a note to myself for further development.When it comes to the analysis of religious claims there is a trade-off between content and credibility, universality and practical import. Theological stakeholders want to make the case that religious claims are believable--in particular, that they can and should be believed with a high degree of conviction. They also have a

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Class WarfareGod and Politics, Together Again - NYTimes.com: "Mr. Obama, who once looked as if he might be able to end the nation’s ideological polarization, has instead become engulfed in it, just like his two predecessors, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton.Let us get real: this is class warfare between us, the urban-coastal upper middle class and the proles. Pundits, who belong to the

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Mr. Rauf: Build That Mosque!Islamic Center Imam: Fight Could Shape Future Of Muslims In America:The imam leading plans for an Islamic center near the site of the Sept. 11 attacks in New York said the fight is over more than 'a piece of real estate' and could shape the future of Muslim relations in America. The dispute 'has expanded beyond a piece of real estate and expanded to Islam in America

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Ban the Burqa!Veiled Threats? - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com: "that the faculty with which people search for life’s ultimate meaning — frequently called “conscience” ─ is a very important part of people, closely related to their dignity. And we add one further premise, which we might call the vulnerability premise: this faculty can be seriously damaged by bad worldly conditions. It can be

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The Religion of PrivilegeNew Age Religion and Western Culture[A]ll forms of New Age Holism have in common a rejection of dualism and reductionism...It may be noted that the rejection of dualism, in all its forms, is directed principally against dominant forms of Christianity, while the rejection of reductionism is directed specifically against modern scientific rationalism. Thus New Age holism

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"A Healthy Lifestyle which I myself is practicing"BiographyI grew up in the Philippines and did my residency in internal medicine in New York. I enjoy learning from people, and that's why I became a doctor; every patient has his or her own story to tell.About my practiceI feel that healthy living and preventive care are the best ways to stay healthy, but I'm also here to help you when you are

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Death by GentrificationSome Harlem Churches in Fight for Survival - NYTimes.comMinisters from churches across Harlem said they had yet to penetrate the walls of the high-price condominiums and the million-dollar refurbished brownstones that now dominate the neighborhood. Some, in truth, expressed little desire to do so. Others said they saw the gentrification of Harlem as an opportunity, but one

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Are Democrats pulling back on faith outreach?: "If 2008 was the year Democrats finally got religion, will 2010 be the year the party loses it again?This is the worry among some religious progressives, who worked to transform the image of Democrats from wary -- or even hostile -- toward religion to a party that hired faith consultants, advertised regularly on Christian radio and featured

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Interesting goes inversely to Important!Jesus Wars: How Four Patriarchs, Three Queens, and Two Emperors Decided What Christians Would Believe for the Next 1,500 years by John Philip Jenkins: "- Sent using Google Toolbar"I've been reading this book by Philip Jenkins, who is quickly becoming my favorite church historian. According to Jenkins, the Church eventually lost half the world by persecuting

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Spiritual, Not ReligiousSurvey: 72% of Millennials 'more spiritual than religious' - USATODAY.com: "- Sent using Google Toolbar"Most young adults today don't pray, don't worship and don't read the Bible, a major survey by a Christian research firm shows. If the trends continue, "the Millennial generation will see churches closing as quickly as GM dealerships," says Thom Rainer, president of

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Institute of Philosophy ConferenceThe Institute of Philosophy in London organised an event on 11 Deecember 2009,celebrating 40 years of the Journal Metaphilosophy (published by Wiley Blackwell).Speakers were Terrell Ward Bynum (Southern Connecticut State), Timothy Williamson(Oxford), Philip Kitcher (Columbia) and David Papineau (King?s College London), as wellas a panel discussion.The whole day

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Hellinistic Syncretism Redux!http://pewforum.org/docs/?DocID=490A new poll by the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life finds that large numbers of Americans engage in multiple religious practices, mixing elements of diverse traditions. Many say they attend worship services of more than one faith or denomination -- even when they are not traveling or going to special events like

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Faux-Libertarianism & Faith-Based Initiativeshttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/13/us/13marriage.html?emc=tnt&tntemail1=yWASHINGTON — The fight over a proposed same-sex marriage law here heated up this week as the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington said that if the law passed, the church would cut its social service programs that help residents with adoption, homelessness and health care. Under

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I'm in middle of doing my taxes for the drop-dead deadline of Oct 15. I can almost never make the April 15 deadline because April is academic conference time and this year I missed the Aug 15 deadline as well.I don't mind paying taxes at all. In fact, I think that I should be paying more taxes. It's the bookkeeping and clerical work I mind. I'd pay a thousand or two more just to avoid it. Go to a

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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/03/us/03religion.htmlMr. Oren pulled to a stop, and as the children stayed in the car, the grown-ups gingerly padded into the sanctuary of Saints Peter and Paul Antiochian Orthodox Church....As he entered, a vespers service was under way. Maybe two dozen worshipers stood, chanting psalms and hymns. Incense filled the dark air. Icons of apostles and saints hung on

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The Church of the Divine SlackerThe Church of the Slacker God | Machines Like Us[W]e should really think of 'accommodationists' as 'worshippers in The Church of the Slacker God.' But this raises the question of why intellectuals like Wright and Baber so desperately want to belong to such a church, which frankly does not seem to offer much to its parishioners. After all, it rules out answers to

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Eighteen AgainOp-Ed Columnist - Parsing Mr. Wilson’s Apology - NYTimes.comJoe Wilson, who will be forever known as the “You lie!” congressman, unless he does something even weirder in the future, has a lot of fans this weekend at the Taxpayer March on Washington. This is an anti-Obama demonstration organized by FreedomWorks, the group that helped bring us the summer town hall meeting protests.

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Taming ReligionTony Blair's justification of faith | Andrew Brown | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk:"Faith is not going to disappear", he said: 'We have this view in Europe that once peope get a bit more sensible, a bit more rational, faith will go out of the window. That's not the way the world works.'..the one thing he did not say or claim, even by implication, was that faith was harmless. It

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On AlphaNicky Gumbel interview transcript | Adam Rutherford | Comment is free | guardian.co.ukWe've got something that works in practice, and we're trying to work out how we can make it work in theory. So, why is it? I think there are a number of things about it. I think it's a low key, relaxed, unthreatening, non-confrontational way for people to explore pretty big questions. I think a lot of

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Oh Jesus, I've Seen the Light!!!Years ago I read about an experiment in which people blind from birth were taught to draw objects with which they were familiar by touch in perspective. After some training, one after the other, they would suddenly "see," understand how visual perspective worked and, I think, become able to visualize objects. And they were thrilled.And do I ever get it! I've been

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Dividing the QuestionScience and religion need a truce | Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk:[A]ccommodationists – still dominate the hallowed institutions of American science. Personally, these scientists may be atheists, agnostics or believers. Whatever their views on the relationship between science and religion, politically, spiritually and practically they

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Verificationism & The God of the PhilosophersHow did you lose, or find, your faith? | The question | Comment is free | guardian.co.ukAll the objects of human reason or enquiry may naturally be divided into two kinds, to wit, Relations of Ideas, and Matters of fact. Of the first kind are the sciences of Geometry, Algebra and Arithmetic...[which are] discoverable by the mere operation of thought ..

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Not the National HealthThousands Line Up for Promise of Free Health Care - NYTimes.com:Ana Maria Garcia, who works for Orange County, has health insurance that covers her husband and 3 ½-year-old daughter, but her dental deductibles are too high for them all to get care, she said...“Regardless if you are employed or not,” Ms. Garcia said, “everything in California is expensive, and so I can

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Anglican Schism, Ho-HumThe Anglican church's crumbling foundations | Stephen Bates | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk:If the Americans are shown the door the consequences for worldwide Anglicanism are incalculable and not just because the wealthy US church largely pays for and sustains the communion, including in those parts of the world where the church's mission would not otherwise survive. In

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The New AtheistsThe philosopher's God | HE Baber | Comment is free | guardian.co.ukI wrote this piece for The Guardian, which got the predictable comments there and then enjoyed something of an afterlife on Butterflies and Wheels with more predictable comments.I suppose I can understand some of the hostility to religion. There are still a few people around who were raised as fundamentalists and

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The Big Tent CollapsesMore briefly, on the quasi-collapse of the Episcopal Church, I ask why people leave the Episcopal Church for more conservative groups--not only or primarily break-away "continuing Anglican" outfits, but non-Anglican evangelical churches, the RC Church and Orthodox churches?The explanation one always hears is that these people are social conservatives who object to the

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Pared-Down Episcopal Church Is Looking to Grow Through ‘Inclusivity’ - NYTimes.comWhether Episcopalians really can regenerate a church based on youth and “inclusivity” remains to be seen. So far, they have paid a price for their actions. Four bishops, the majority of their dioceses and numerous parishes around the country jumped ship in the last few years to form a new, theologically conservative

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Wise LatinaSotomayor backs off ‘wise Latina’ quote - The Boston GlobeSupreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, deflecting tough questioning by Republicans on the second day of her confirmation hearings, said yesterday that in 17 years as a judge she has never let her own life experiences or opinions influence her decisions. Sotomayor said her now-famous remark that she would hope a “wise Latina’’

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Bravo, Turkey!Turkish gameshow Penitents Compete tests atheist resolve | World news | guardian.co.ukIt sounds like the beginning of a joke: what do you get when you put a Muslim imam, a Greek Orthodox priest, a rabbi, a Buddhist monk and 10 atheists in the same room?Viewers of Turkish television will soon get the punchline when a new gameshow begins that offers a prize arguably greater than that

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For Colleges, Small Cutbacks Are Adding Up to Big Savings - NYTimes.com: "s for living on a budget.Campus life is getting a bit dirtier as housekeeping standards are relaxed. Oberlin College in Ohio saved $22,300 by scaling back on window washing, and Pitzer College in Claremont, Calif., is power washing its sidewalks and windows once a year instead of twice. Carleton College in Northfield, Minn.

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Happy Bloomsday!Op-Ed Contributor - But Always Meeting Ourselves - NYTimes.com

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Anti-Neocolonialism in IranEditorial - Neither Real Nor Free - NYTimes.com:Although a runoff was widely expected between the two top vote-getters, the polls had barely closed before authorities declared victory for the hard-line president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. And it was a landslide: 62.6 percent versus just less than 34 percent for the main challenger, Mir Hussein Moussavi.I followed this

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Iranian Culture WarsLandslide or Fraud? The Debate Online Over Iran’s Election Results - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com:A reader using the Web alias “Iranian Voter” reminds us that the repeated warnings from Iran’s intelligence service that opposition movements in favor of reform in Iran are nothing more than foreign government plots are believed by some Iranians:"Color revolutions were masterminded

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Sotomayor's Pick-up LineThe 'Racist' Uproar Over Sotomayor's "Wise Latina" CommentWhether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences...our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging. Justice [Sandra Day] O'Connor has often been cited as saying that a wise old man and wise old woman will reach the same conclusion in deciding cases. I am

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Obama at Notre DameAt Notre Dame, Obama Defends His Abortion Stance - NYTimes.comPresident Obama directly confronted America’s deep divide over abortion on Sunday as he appealed to partisans on both sides to find ways to respect one another’s basic decency and even work together to reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies. As anti-abortion leaders protested his appearance at the University of

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The Next ChristendomAmazon.com: The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity: Philip Jenkins: BooksFear of Islam is peaking, fueled by reports that the religion is burgeoning in numbers as well as militancy. Jenkins grants that Islam is indeed booming but marshals the evidence that today's largest religion, Christianity, will grow exponentially, too, and will remain the faith of the

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How Do Americans Really Feel About God? | The American Prospect[T]he Pew Forum looked at 'the fluidity of religious affiliation in the U.S.' and found that roughly half of U.S. adults have changed religion at some point in their life. Further, the number of Americans who identify as unaffiliated with a particular religion -- now hovering around 16 percent -- has grown more rapidly than any other

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The Way We Live Now - Kindergarten Cram - NYTimes.comJean Piaget famously referred to “the American question,” which arose when he lectured in this country: how, his audiences wanted to know, could a child’s development be sped up? The better question may be: Why are we so hellbent on doing so?Easy answer. Because the US is a high-risk, high-stakes casino that is ostensibly a fair meritocracy. We

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Op-Ed Columnist - Defecting to Faith - NYTimes.com[A] study entitled “Faith in Flux” issued this week by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life questioned nearly 3,000 people and found that most children raised unaffiliated with a religion later chose to join one.I'm one of those and suppose I'm typical of most whosaid that they first joined a religion because their spiritual needs were not

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IcelandAt the Polls, Icelanders Punish Conservatives - NYTimes.com:With about a third of the final vote counted late Saturday, it seemed that the country’s leftist caretaking government would be formally voted into power, with the Social Democrats projected to gain 22 seats and their partners, the Left-Greens, appearing to gain 13 seats in the 63-seat Parliament. The conservative Independent

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Christian Political ActivismThe FundamentaList (No. 77) | The American ProspectThe Times' Frank Rich, in his gloating obituary of the anti-gay-marriage movement, got a little ahead of himself on Sunday. Rich is right that, as Paul Waldman demonstrated last week, public opinion is trending toward legalization of marriage equality. Still, fundamentalist religious movements should never be counted

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Agnès Poirier: French students have reinvented the art of demonstration | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk:This beautiful square, right in the heart of Paris, opposite the city town hall, has been chosen by protesters to stage a ronde des obstinés, loosely translated as the hard-headed round. They've been walking in circles for two weeks, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. They may be hundreds,

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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. Eliot, T.S. 1917. Prufrock and Other ObservationsIn the room the women come and go Talking of Michelangelo.A few weeks ago I visited my undergraduate alma mater, where I got a rather haphazard, mediocre education--even thought I didn't know it at the time.Some of the science programs were serious and decent. Science majors graduated and got jobs in labs, went

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ParableSuppose you are a smart high school senior interested in astronomy. Heading for college you look for schools with programs in astronomy, astrophysics and strong physics programs that look suitable. You discover that one of these places has a big program in astronomy and offers an undergraduate major. You apply, are accepted, and go to that college.Now as it happens a few years earlier some

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AIG bonuses | SalonThe right's brain trust is yelling that the tax is a bill of attainder that will scare off 'the investor class,' but GOP politicians, facing pitchfork-waving mobs who want to string up that 'investor class,' have stopped following orders. The pearl of Alfred E. Neumann wisdom from the right, priceless in its political tone-deafness, is the repeated assertion that bonuses must

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God is a Utilitarian!Public Discourse, More Government, Less God: What the Obama Revolution Means for Religion in America, by W. Bradford WilcoxA recent study of 33 countries around the world by Anthony Gill and Erik Lundsgaarde, political scientists at the University of Washington, indicates that there is an inverse relationship between state welfare spending and religiosity. Specifically, they

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The Politics of Possible WorldsTalking Business - It’s Not the Bonus Money. It’s the Principle. - NYTimes.comMost people still don’t fully understand what, exactly, Wall Street did that caused so much trouble for the country and the financial system....[W]ords like “off-balance-sheet vehicles” and “mortgage-backed securities” don’t have much meaning for most of us. What we understand is greed —

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The Church of Obama: Just For YouMatt Frei: Taming the cyber beast | Comment is free | The GuardianThe Clinton White House leaked like a sieve. The Bush White House circled the wagons and lived in a bubble; it turned loyalty into a test of service and largely disdained the clutter of opinions from the world outside 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. If the last year is anything to go by, the Obama

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Eat Shit, CarolineCaroline Kennedy, mommy wars, New York Times | Salon LifeIn this past Sunday's New York Times Magazine, contributing writer Lisa Belkin made a comparison between the plight of Caroline Kennedy, a New Yorker who never committed to a particular career path and is now hoping Gov. David Paterson will appoint her to Hillary Clinton's Senate seat, and Whitney Hoffman, a mother who has

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Humanist Pseudo-ChurchHumanist Parents Seek Communion Outside Church - washingtonpost.comDozens of parents came together on a recent Saturday to participate in a seminar on humanist parenting and to meet others interested in organizing a kind of nonreligious congregation, complete with regular family activities and ceremonies for births and deaths...People often ask, "How do you expect to raise

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Wither Feminism?We are a group of professionals from various disciplines who study women's place in the economy. We are collecting signatures to a letter to President-Elect Obama concerning jobs for women at the following site. Please go there to sign and forward it to people who would like to join in the effort. http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/genderequityA while ago I was invited by a

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It's Official: Mainline Protestantism is DeadThe Associated Press: Obama defends choice of pastor for invocationThe selection of Pastor Rick Warren brought objections from gay rights advocates, who strongly supported Obama during the election campaign. The advocates are angry over Warren's backing of a California ballot initiative banning gay marriage. That measure was approved by voters last

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Imagine No ReligionGroup plans to sue city over removal of controversial billboard - San Bernardino County SunRANCHO CUCAMONGA - A Wisconsin group advocating the separation of church and state plans to sue the city for playing a role in the demise of a billboard on Archibald Avenue and Foothill Boulevard. A billboard with the message 'Imagine No Religion' by the Freedom From Religion Foundation

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Family ValuesWhy churches fear gay marriage | Salon NewsWhile conservative churches are busy trying to whip up another round of culture wars over same-sex marriage, Rodriquez says the real reason for their panic lies elsewhere: the breakdown of the traditional heterosexual family and the shifting role of women in society and the church itself. As the American family fractures and the majority of

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A New DealOp-Ed Columnist - The Obama Agenda - NYTimes.comCan Barack Obama really usher in a new era of progressive policies? Yes, he can. Right now, many commentators are urging Mr. Obama to think small. Some make the case on political grounds: America, they say, is still a conservative country, and voters will punish Democrats if they move to the left. Others say that the financial and economic

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We won!We won! We won! All of us won!At last this 40 year nightmare is over. McCain is making his concession speach. McCain mentions Obama and his audience is boo-ing but McCain hushes them. honorable and a good sport. But making a big deal about the fact the Obama is black. I don't care for that.I suppose I can understand myself though because today I got my country back.But to me what's most

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The Great ReductioSidney Blumenthal: McCain is on the verge of a defeat that marks the end of the Republican era | Comment is free | The GuardianNow, certain factors that have dominated US politics for 40 years seem destined to recede to the far corners. In economics, supply-side panaceas and deregulation created the worst crisis since the Great Depression, requiring a conservative Republican

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People are Rational (But Misinformed)A scary Halloween with Sarah Palin | Salon NewsSupporters of the Republican candidate for president believe they are looking down the barrel of a gun loaded by Karl Marx, held by Barack Obama. The McCain-Palin fear-mongering tour is exposing -- or exploiting -- unrest and anxiety wherever it goes...84-year-old World War II veteran John H. Gay...was tormented

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The Great American NightmareTAPPED Archive | The American Prospect:Steven Calabresi waxes hysterical and ludicrously implausible: "If Mr. Obama wins we could possibly see any or all of the following: a federal constitutional right to welfare; a federal constitutional mandate of affirmative action wherever there are racial disparities, without regard to proof of discriminatory intent; a right for

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Politics and ModalityIs Anybody Happy? - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com Joe the Plumber! Joe is, of course, the conservative guy from northwestern Ohio who told Obama: “Your new tax plan is going to tax me more” because he planned to buy a business that he hoped would reel in more than $250,000 a year in profits. The proper answer, as Obama should have known, was: “No, it won’t.”...Joe the Plumber, it turns

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Plastic ObamaOp-Ed Columnist - Thinking About Obama - NYTimes.comWe’ve been watching Barack Obama for two years now, and in all that time there hasn’t been a moment in which he has publicly lost his self-control. This has been a period of tumult, combat, exhaustion and crisis. And yet there hasn’t been a moment when he has displayed rage, resentment, fear, anxiety, bitterness, tears, ecstasy,

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Joe the Plumber and the American DreamPlumber From Ohio Is Thrust Into Spotlight - NYTimes.com Mr. McCain...[cited] “Joe the Plumber” [Wurzelbacher] as a symbol of how Mr. Obama’s tax policies would hurt small businesses. Since his initial exchange with Mr. Obama, Mr. Wurzelbacher has become a favorite of anti-Obama bloggers and television commentators. On Neil Cavuto’s program on Fox News, for

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John McCain: Straight Shooter?http://my.barackobama.com/page/invite/keatingvideoA friend sent this to me. Check it out.

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A Herd of MavericksBiden Teaches Palin the Meaning of 'Maverick'When my husband was a starving student he used to get his teeth fixed for free by dental students at his university who needed live subjects for practice. It was always an adventure and, on one occasion, a student slipped and drilled a hole in his cheek.I wouldn't trust a trainee dentist, much less an amateur, to work on my teeth or

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MiddleclassnessOp-Ed Columnist - How McCain Wins - Op-Ed - NYTimes.comThe core case against Obama is pretty simple: he’s too liberal...the only Democrats to win the presidency in the past 40 years — Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton — distanced themselves from liberal orthodoxy. Obama is, by contrast, a garden-variety liberal. He also has radical associates in his past...Obama quotes from the

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More Stuff White People LikeStuff White People LikeI quite often doubt the value of what I do, and have done for most of my adult life: teaching and research in a humanities discipline. I'm lousy at math so I didn't have any choice.I don't imagine for one minute that what I do is worth anything close to what engineers, doctors or nurses do--but I do think it's worth something. My research

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How White of ThemIntolerant Chic[D]ismissing something or someone as “so white” has long been a favorite put-down among those who like to view themselves as right-thinking, hierarchy-defying nonconformists—that is, White People. Recall those ads extolling “the new face of wealth,” which contrast male, stone-faced WASP bankers with attractive, far less formally—though far more expensively—clad

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It's the Philosophy, Stupid!EzraKlein Archive | The American Prospect:The challenges facing our financial system today are more evidence that too many folks in Washington and on Wall Street weren't minding the store...I certainly don't fault Senator McCain for these problems, but I do fault the economic philosophy he subscribes to. It's a philosophy we've had for the last eight years – one that

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Feminism:What Went Wrong?I don't think Sarah Palin is qualified to be Vice President of the United States and, given her views on a range of issues, I wouldn't support her for any elected office. But I'd much rather have a beer with her than with any of he other candidates.Palin is the beneficiary of the left-wing politics that she despises, and of Second Wave feminism which was part of that

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Raging Rajas of ResentmentOp-Ed Columnist - The Resentment Strategy - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com[T]he Republican Party, now more than ever, is firmly in the hands of the angry right, which has always been much bigger, much more influential and much angrier than its counterpart on the other side. What’s the source of all that anger? Some of it, of course, is driven by cultural and religious conflict:

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God is on our side!So, with Hurricane Gustav surging toward the Gulf Coast and Mayor Ray "Chocolate City" Nagin calling for an evacuation of New Orleans, Republicans have decided to tamp down the festivities at their convention. What else can they do? Imagine the alternative: a split screen of the hurricane blowing down houses, with people on the rooftops and dogs drowning while Republicans party

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Sarah PalinUnity Deferred - Can You Cross Out ‘Hillary’ and Write ‘Sarah’? - NYTimes.comThe Palin nomination complicates the gender question in many ways. [W]hat will happen if the misogyny extends to Ms. Palin? There were hints of that on Friday, with Web sites showing photographs of her bare-shouldered in the days when she was runner-up for Miss Alaska, or as one caption read, “showing off her

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Obama, we hardly knew ye[W]ith Barack Hussein Obama officially becoming the Democratic presidential nominee on Wednesday night, some of the same qualities that have brought him just one election away from the White House — his virtuosity, his seriousness, his ability to inspire, his seeming immunity from the strains that afflict others — may be among his biggest obstacles to getting there. There

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Hillary's SpeechCan someone please shut up these Hillary-haters who just can't let go before they do serious damage to Obama's candidacy? There probably aren't any more of them than there are Hillary-diehards who intend to stay home or vote for McCain, but it's they, and their friends in the media--not Obama, or the Clintons, or anyone seriously involved in the political process--who are driving

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Shove Over, Samhttp://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/25/hillary-clinton-speaks-about-moving-on/# 16. August 25th, 2008, 3:48 pmThe way Hillary acted in the primary was and is inexcusable. She and Bill obviously can’t handle the fact they are has-beens. It’s now time for them to get out of the way and let younger politicians have their day.— Posted by SamSo, you want to know why more than

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Paleo-LiberalismThe Newer Deal: The path to a Democratic supermajority | SalonWhat happened beginning in 1968 was that one two-party system -- let us call it the Roosevelt Party versus the Hoover Party -- gave way to the present two-party system, which pits the Nixon Party versus the McGovern Party...The Roosevelt Party ran on economic issues, and didn't care whether voters were in favor of sex

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Anglican Tooth-AchingReligion & Ethics NewsWeekly . COVER . Lambeth Preview . July 18, 2008 | PBSAnglicans have been a contentious crowd since the tradition was founded under King Henry VIII nearly 500 years ago. Anglicanism has long stressed unity in the midst of diversity. But now, diversity may be stretching the Anglican Communion to a breaking point. At one end of the spectrum is All Saints

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As a Worldwide Schism Lurks, the Church of England Endorses Women as Bishops - NYTimes.comThe governing body of the Anglican Church in Britain voted on Monday to approve the appointment of women as bishops, a step that appeared to risk a schism in the church in its historic homeland as the Anglican church worldwide faces one of the most serious threats to its unity in its history, over the

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Social Justice or the Common Good?Party in Search of a Notion | The American ProspectFor many years -- during their years of dominance and success, the period of the New Deal up through the first part of the Great Society -- the Democrats practiced a brand of liberalism quite different from today's. Yes, it certainly sought to expand both rights and prosperity. But it did something more: That

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Albanian Custom Fades - Woman as Family Man - NYTimes.comKRUJE, Albania — Pashe Keqi recalled the day nearly 60 years ago when she decided to become a man. She chopped off her long black curls, traded in her dress for her father’s baggy trousers, armed herself with a hunting rifle and vowed to forsake marriage, children and sex. For centuries, in the closed-off and conservative society of rural

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Whining? Whatever...Peter Schweizer on Liberal Whine on National Review OnlineHowdy, boys and girls. Did you know there's a new word that has replaced whatever as an argument-stopper and conversational trump-card--at least for those of you who're of the conservative persuasion? Yes, indeed. The new W-word is whining.You may wonder how a verb which has fairly stringent criteria for application can

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Why Pro-Choice Shouldn't Be a Feminist IssueSex-segregation in the labor market is important issue for women; pro-choice is not.(1) It's easy to avoid having a baby; it's difficult to avoid getting stuck doing pink-collar shit work.To avoid having a baby all you have to do is use effective birth control. It's affordable, readily available, and the odds of contraceptive failure are minimal. It's

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Feminist "Intersectionality"Looking to the Future, Feminism Has to Focus - washingtonpost.com[F]aced with criticism that the movement was too white and middle-class, many influential feminist thinkers conceded that issues affecting mostly white middle-class women -- such as the corporate glass ceiling or the high cost of day care -- should not significantly concern the feminist movement.

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1968 AgainWhite voters and the Democratic primary | Salon NewsTeixeira: [T]he Democratic Party has a sort of image in certain areas of the country among certain voters, particularly downscale voters, that's somewhat unfavorable. There's a certain cultural distance there, a sense of an elitism in the national party that Obama probably connects to in their minds...Wilentz: And it also goes back to

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