Archive for September, 2008
0
The Gray Lady Links

14 Sep 2008, Mike

I recently canceled delivery of the print version of The New York Times. I did so not because I stopped reading the paper, but because the paper in Web form is so much more accessible and powerful. That accessibility and power is most evident in today’s column by Frank Rich.... Continue Reading
0
A Smashing Success for Science

10 Sep 2008, Mike

Geeks. Pocket protectors. Propeller heads. Today, all of the playful, derogatory descriptors go away. Scientists — explorers, more accurately — fired up the Large Hadron Collider to recreate conditions of the Big Bang. Do they know what they’ll find? They have ideas, but the excitement of what they don’t know... Continue Reading
0
Isn’t Al Qaeda Also on a “Task That is From God?”

4 Sep 2008, Mike

As if I needed another reason not to vote for McCain and Palin (courtesty of the Associated Press): Gov. Sarah Palin told ministry students at her former church that theUnited States sent troops to fight in the Iraq war on a “task that isfrom God.”... Permalink
1