Presidential Candidate Selector results

These are my ideal candidates, according to The Presidential Candidate Selector. 1. Theoretical Ideal Candidate (100%) 2. Barack Obama (83%) 3. Dennis Kucinich (81%) 4. Alan Augustson (campaign suspended) (73%) 5. Joseph Biden (72%) 6. Wesley Clark (not running, endorsed Clinton) (72%) 7. Christopher Dodd (70%) 8. Hillary Clinton (70%) 9. John Edwards (69%) 10. [...]

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Ken Miller on Intelligent Design

This is a very long video (almost 2 hours) but quite worthwhile for anyone interested in understanding why intelligent design creationism is bad science. Especially interesting to me were the bits where Miller discusses evidence against irreducible complexity. Miller is a Roman Catholic biology professor at Brown University, and he believes that faith and science [...]

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Cost of the War

Here’s a quote from th National Priorities Project (NPP) website: The taxpayer cost of the Iraq War is broken down for various towns, cities and counties across the U.S. The breakdown is based on a total cost of $378 billion. That is $3,375 for every American household or $1,275 for every American or $2,848 per [...]

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Democracy in Iraq … as if you hadn’t heard enough about it

Well, well, well … bet you were never expecting to hear from me again! Yes, it’s been over a week since I’ve posted. Sorry, snaars fans … but you all wouldn’t adore me half so much if I didn’t live up to my obligations such as family, work, and school, now would you? Yesterday I [...]

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Intelligent design?

This says it all. By Tom Toles. Here is a link: intelligent design cartoon; By the way, I noticed that the a-words are now about trains. I can’t wait to see what comes up next. I’ll have to think of some interesting things to write about, and see how they respond. This could get fun! [...]

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They nearly lynched me.

Here’s my letter to the class. When I wrote it I knew it would cause mixed feelings but I really didn’t care. Since then we had a class discussion about it and I think we are all okay. Open Letter to CMCN 304 class If you don’t have the patience to read this entire e-mail, [...]

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Last Monday night’s communication class was very intense because of an e-mail I sent to my classmates. The class is called “group communication and problem solving”. We have a project, which is to answer the controversial question, “Is the war in Iraq justified?” The topic was chosen through a group brainstorming and elimination process. We [...]

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I ain’t nothin’ but a houn’ dog

I read a lot of political stuff in the news. I have been more or less following national and international politics for five years. I still don’t know what to make of it. Sometimes I want to give up trying to figure out what’s really going on. I want everyone to know that although I [...]

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retraction: FOX did not buy Al Jazeera

It was a satirical article. If I had seen it firsthand, it would have been obvious. But hearing about it second- or third-hand and having presented to me as factual I was almost taken in.

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Iran, N.Korea, and nukes

Today North Korea announced that it has nuclear weapons. The U.S. is pursuing diplomatic relations with North Korea, even though we know they despise us to the core. This is because we know that as long as we keep paying Kim Jong Il, he will not nuke anyone. Today the president of Iran, Mohammad Khatami, [...]

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