Why I’m glad I read Robin Hanson
December 30, 2009 by Chris Hallquist
Filed under social and literary criticism
After months of reading Robin Hanson, status-based and trying-to-appear-a-certain-way-based explanations of human behavior come naturally to me, so much so that I’m often surprised when people hesitate at all to embrace them. In a post criticizing the TSA’s response to the recent failed terror attack, Ed Brayton said “If you’re really cynical, you could make [...]
Continue Reading »This week in unfortunate event titles
December 28, 2009 by Chris Hallquist
Filed under humor
Skepchick advertises an event titled how to have more sex with Richard Wiseman. The advertising emphasizes the fact that he is the author of a book titled “59 seconds.”
Continue Reading »Newsflash: Scientists Respond Poorly to Harrassment
December 25, 2009 by Chris Hallquist
Filed under climate change, politics, science, social and literary criticism, stupidity
And Journalistic Objectivity is Idiotic.
Via Vic Reppert, a couple weeks ago the AP put out a report on the hacked global warming e-mails. What it boils down to is this: the scientists weren’t committing fraud, but in spite of this they were getting accused of fraud, and in one case, a critic threatened to [...]
On Wanting to Keep Christ in Christmas
December 23, 2009 by Chris Hallquist
Filed under religion, social and literary criticism
Every time I read about the likes of Bill O’Reilly complaining about the fact that not everyone celebrates Christmas, I wonder “where are the Christians complaining about the commercialization and secularization and general cheapening of Christmas? Where are the Christians saying ‘hey, this is a holiday with profound religious importance to us, we don’t appreciate [...]
Continue Reading »Richard Carrier on Obama
December 23, 2009 by Chris Hallquist
Filed under politics
I’ve been suspicious about Obama ever since I first heard about his campaign, and will always think it’s an embarrassment that we let someone into the Oval Office based on such ridiculous rhetoric. But recently, Richard Carrier has done a couple of posts making a very good defense of Obama’s policies, first a general discussion [...]
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