Whenever there is a major natural catastrophe that causes widespread death and destruction and harms innocent people, that is the cue for religious leaders to come out of the woodwork to trot out arguments that seek to counter the natural conclusion of any reasonable person that there is either no god or that the deity is a cruel and evil one. [Read more…]
It is one thing that we have in the US a one-party state that serves the interests of the oligarchy, with the Republican and Democratic parties being two factions, with the Democrats projecting the kinder, gentler face. [Read more…]
One of the puzzles of the current presidential election has been the divergence between the national polls (which indicate a close race with the lead fluctuating between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney) and the predictions of the poll aggregators based on state polling which have had Obama showing a fairly steady lead that would result in around 300 electoral votes. [Read more…]
I am in Washington DC and today is a nice sunny day. This city was largely spared as Hurricane Sandy seems to have gone slightly north of here, hitting severely New Jersey and New York. [Read more…]
Peer review is an important part of the academic publication process. All scholarly articles undergo peer review from at least one other person familiar with the field (plus an editor of the journal), although two is the more common number of reviewers, and sometimes may be more if there is disagreement amongst the reviewers or a strong appeal from the author of a rejected paper. [Read more…]
Mr. Deity and Lucy discuss Jesus’s improvisations while being down here on Earth and in the process reveal why Ayn Rand was put on this Earth. [Read more…]
I will be traveling for the next few days to attend a college reunion in Washington DC and so blogging may be light since my access to the internet may be spotty as well as me being busy meeting up with old friends whom I have not seen for decades. Unfortunately due to Hurricane Sandy, some of them have had their flights cancelled and so cannot attend.
Blogging should be back to normal by Monday.
Some time ago, I discussed the question of whether Sherlock Holmes could be classed as a psychopath based on his behavior in the stories. In pursuing this question a little more, I came across an article in the Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders that elaborated on how psychopathy manifests itself. [Read more…]