Is this the greatest voice speaking on behalf of atheism?
(I’m going to cut down a whole lot, go read TJ’s original post for the context
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And yet another observer misses the obvious point that the Tebow’s story is the “poster child” (so to speak) of pro-choice, assuming that your definition of “pro-choice” includes “can choose to keep a difficult pregnancy”
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I tend to find find this but particularly ironic in a very delicious way - that the message is really pro-choice. But the fact remains that the Tebows DON’T SEE IT THAT WAY. They (and I suppose more precisely the group which funded the ad) see no choice at all - despite what the doctor says, despite how difficult it might be, despite how much a woman might not WANT to have the baby or WANT to risk her life that abortion is always wrong and should never be allowed. That’s Dawkins’ point, and it’s a valid one.
(Oh, and as a side note, while you can take issue with Dawkins’ suggestion of what the logical extreme of this view really is, the Quiverfull movement (which, if not really mainstream is certainly highly visible) makes an argument not to far off of that - that a couple’s duty is to procreate as often as is possible.
Posted Friday February 5, 2010 at 5:22 PM (Comments, 22 notes)You know you have a problem
if, when you find yourself at the bottom of a depp hole you’ve dug for yourself your first response is “Better keep digging! How else am I going to get out of here?”
Posted Thursday February 4, 2010 at 9:24 AM (Comments, 2 notes)Engadget Turns Off Comments
tj:
Most major tech sites would be a lot better off with comments disabled.
Most major tech sites would be a lot better off not existing. So much waste.
(Click through for more. Oh, and Apple is always wrong.)
Why can’t I click through! I want to express my uninformed opinion! And see more ads! They roxorz
Posted Tuesday February 2, 2010 at 1:01 PM (Comments, 56 notes)
Now that’s what I’m talking about. Built-in screen protection and keyboard combined.
Call me, Apple. There’s a lot more where this came from.
Mna, that looks great! And it seems somehow… familiar…
I've successfully repressed the urge for years, but fuck that noise.
Something’s getting pierced.
Hell, yeah! It’s seriously cathartic.
Posted Saturday January 30, 2010 at 8:20 PM (Comments, 49 notes)
It turns out that spending a good chunk of the day trying unsuccessfully to free your car from an ice covered hill works up an appetite. Fortunately there is a sushi bar in walking distance that was both open and delicious.
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merlin:
The Flash Blog » The iPad provides the ultimate browsing experience?
That’s a pretty damning demo.
Which would have looked like this if it had been rendered in Flash instead of a JPEG:
Get used to the rapidly accelerating irrelevance.
[via]
Word. Step up to the future Bang Bros!
I dunno - the ipad seems like it might be awkward for… certain uses…](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kx145tmHzn1qz4rlzo1_400.jpg)
The Flash Blog » The iPad provides the ultimate browsing experience?
That’s a pretty damning demo.
Which would have looked like this if it had been rendered in Flash instead of a JPEG:
Get used to the rapidly accelerating irrelevance.
[via]
Word. Step up to the future Bang Bros!
I dunno - the ipad seems like it might be awkward for… certain uses…
Excuse me while I go all English major
Salinger hasn’t published in more than 40 years. In the few interviews he gave, he said that’s because once you publish something, readers feel that you owe them, but when you write only for yourself, it always belongs to you.
He’s right, of course. Once it’s out there for people to buy, someone else can interpret the work how they want (see Chapman, Mark David). But to steal a Zen koan, is art really art if no one sees it? Is the act of creating art enough?
Writing is a solitary pursuit, something Salinger and Pynchon have taken to the extreme. But Pynchon, at least, has continued to publish. Salinger stood pat on the strength of what he wrote in the span of about a decade. But anyone who writes — really writes — couldn’t think of just stopping.
So what happens to those manuscripts (assuming he didn’t burn them all)? Do his children fight about whether to release them? Does the existence of more Salinger material even have any bearing on his place in the pantheon? Or is he great BECAUSE he never published anything that was uneven?
A theatre professor once told our class that writing for just yourself is like masturbation. It may be fun, but it doesn’t really accomplish anything.
Posted Friday January 29, 2010 at 3:53 PM (Comments, 4 notes)
From Ron Sylvester’s excellent live-tweeting of the Scott Roeder trial.
That came after he explained how the man he killed, Dr. George Tiller, lived in a gated community and had security at his clinic, and so was unreachable there. Roeder did have a choice, of course, the choice not to shoot and kill someone he disagreed with to further a political agenda. But he made his twisted moral calculus and figured he was justified. To say he had no choice, as if his decision was so clearly right, turns my stomach.
Does anyone else find it ironic that the defense this shitbag is using is the same “moral relativism” that the extreme right has been decrying for the last 4 decades?
From Ron Sylvester’s excellent live-tweeting of the Scott Roeder trial.
That came after he explained how the man he killed, Dr. George Tiller, lived in a gated community and had security at his clinic, and so was unreachable there. Roeder did have a choice, of course, the choice not to shoot and kill someone he disagreed with to further a political agenda. But he made his twisted moral calculus and figured he was justified. To say he had no choice, as if his decision was so clearly right, turns my stomach.
Does anyone else find it ironic that the defense this shitbag is using is the same “moral relativism” that the extreme right has been decrying for the last 4 decades?
