Lester Hunt discusses the problem. Since I live in Madison, I can verify that yeah, University Ave needs no repairs, and money spent on it is obviously wasteful to anyone who’s ever been down it. He links to a website where, odds are, you can find equally wasteful items for your own city.
Monthly Archives: February 2009
Obama’s stimulus rhetoric
Posted by Chris Hallquist on February 9, 2009
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I’ve started paying more attention to the debate over the stimulus package, and what I see horrifies me. The theory behind the stimulus package is that going even further into debt is just what we need in an economic crisis–but if so, why didn’t Bush’s fiscal policies make us all rich? Last week, Will Wilkinson [...]
Non-review: Charles Taylor’s The Secular Age
Posted by Chris Hallquist on February 5, 2009
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I picked up a copy of Charles Taylor’s _The Secular Age_ because I heard it listed as an example of a response to Dawkins et al. I didn’t finish it, because it hardly responds to them at all, save for in one footnote (p. 835n): Dawkins’ reasons for believing that science can sideline religion hardly [...]
Yes.
Posted by Chris Hallquist on February 5, 2009
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The answer to your question is yes, the atheist literature does convert some people. Why do atheists have to deal with the silly “why try to persuade people if you aren’t going to persuade everyone” argument?
I already knew this, but…
Posted by Chris Hallquist on February 4, 2009
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It’s good to have reminders of the dumb stuff the U.N. is involved in.