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| Sep 11, 2005 |
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The point of property |
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The following was written in an attempt to clarify my own position on copyright, patents, etc. — topics I've willfully neglected for too...
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| Feb 12, 2005 |
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Dˆm and Dˆmber |
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Remember ≈ke Green, the backwater pastor who publicized an obsessively homophobic sermon in 2003, for which he was convicted to a month in...
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| Aug 15, 2004 |
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Three questions for the conventionally religious |
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I am an atheist, though this does not mean that I am not interested in the idea of God (I am not an...
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| Jul 11, 2004 |
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≈ke Green Redux |
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This week I forwent the pleasures of the internet for a stint of unwired living on Sandhamn, with moss and pine needles underfoot...
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| May 17, 2004 |
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MÂndagsfyran |
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Sweden is probably going to trade in a Christian holiday for a new national holiday. I approve, because I do not believe religious...
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| Apr 16, 2004 |
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A tale of two passions: The unbeliever's guide |
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Just when you have overdosed on Jesus, just when all possible excuses to blog him would seem to have passed safely, at least...
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| Jan 21, 2004 |
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Secular Israel, cont. |
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Didn't see it until just now on A&L Daily, but this is a fine fine article by Brian Klug, a symphony to my...
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| Jan 21, 2004 |
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France's theatre of the absurd |
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This is beginning to read like a Eugene Ionesco play. Education Minister Luc Ferry on Tuesday had an admirable go at taking to...
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| Jan 15, 2004 |
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For a secular Israel (dream on) |
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Sometimes posts I read bug me longer than expected. This tells me I should have blogged them to begin with. Here is a...
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| Jan 7, 2004 |
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Tvungen eller fˆrbjuden |
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In the wake of that digraceful ruling by the French, the debate concerning the acceptability of the muslim headscarf in Swedish schools heats...
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| Dec 18, 2003 |
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ChrÈtientÈ, …galitÈ, FraternitÈ |
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I never thought I'd see the day I find myself agreeing with France's National Front, but today it happened: Jean Marie Le Pen's...
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| Dec 6, 2003 |
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Positive-sum games |
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Civilization, I've decided, is the ability of a society to sustain positive-sum games. Successful positive-sum games consist of all the players choosing the...
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| Nov 18, 2003 |
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Animal rights vs human rights (vs common sense) |
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A friend mentioned last week that kosher butchers are illegal in Sweden. I thought to myself, that can't be right, that would be,...
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| Jul 6, 2003 |
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How the Irish saved civilization? By blogging it. |
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I've finally read How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill, and as I expected, it contains a number of big ideas. Among...
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| Apr 20, 2003 |
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Render unto Caesar |
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Jesus was executed by Pontius Pilate because he was a rabble-rouser. This much is agreed by scholars. What kind of rabble-rouser he was...
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| Jan 9, 2003 |
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Apatheism |
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While looking at some list of words of the year one word in particular that I had not previously seen caught my attention:...
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| Dec 8, 2002 |
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Dead heat |
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I just found out tonight that my apartment's central heating is provided in part by a local crematorium. Surprisingly, this little nugget of...
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| Sep 6, 2002 |
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Nationalist Geographic |
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We went to Jericho two days ago, and then on to Qumran, where they discovered the Dead Sea Scrolls. In Jericho we visited...
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| Sep 2, 2002 |
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You're all wrong |
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The first comprehensive study of this blog has been conducted by Matthew Rose. Here are the findings: You wondered once why some of...
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| Aug 27, 2002 |
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Mostly Moses |
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Last weekend the parents and I drove to the Sinai peninsula to root around St. Catherine's Monastery, at the base of Mount Sinai,...
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| Aug 9, 2002 |
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Hollywood smitten with God, God smites back |
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God punishes Joe Eszterhas for Showgirls, although Joe is under the impression that his smoking is to blame, so he makes a deal...
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| Aug 5, 2002 |
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Searching for meaning II |
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I've always maintained that a belief in God is the result of a failure of the imagination: But in Simon Blackburn's review of...
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| Jul 16, 2002 |
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Andrew Sullivan watch |
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Andrew Sullivan wrote in the Times of London, regarding the AIDS epidemic devastating the Third World: Why not simply rip off the formulae...
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| Jul 3, 2002 |
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Un-American activity |
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Ooh, this is good stuff, from the letters page on AndrewSullivan.com: Contrary to one of your other reader letters, the pledge in schools...
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| Jun 27, 2002 |
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Pledge of Allegiance, II |
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All this outrage, but no competent counterargument. Legal experts agree that the ruling draws the logical conclusion from previous case law. The one...
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| Jun 26, 2002 |
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Pledge of Allegiance, I |
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Honest libertarians everywhere will be rejoicing at the news that the pledge of allegiance is unconstitutional because it refers to the US as...
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