Junior Ganymede

Political Seal Meat Dining

John Mansfield — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:22:08 +0000

“Canadian MPs will be served seal meat this week in support of hunters fighting an EU ban on products from the animals.”
. . .
“Last month, an offer of seal meat caught by indigenous hunters to the world’s leading economic ministers at a G7 meeting in Iqaluit, 200 miles south of the Arctic circle, sparked outrage.” (link)

The Laws of Physics and the Comprehensibility of God

Bruce Nielson — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:58:54 +0000

My latest post at M* considers the possible ramifications of God being comprehensible. Here is a preview:

Is that a laudable goal, to try to comprehend God? Is God even comprehensible? Please note, I do not mean to ask if God is comprehensible to current mortal man. No, I am asking if God is comprehensible at all.

What does it mean to comprehend something? Try to define that for yourself for a moment to get a feel for the difficulty in doing so.

I would like to propose a fairly simple definition for your consideration. I propose that “to comprehend” something is merely the ability to describe it in terms of the laws the govern it — to algorithmically compress it, if you will. If we comprehend how the world goes around the sun, this surely must mean we understand the laws of physics that cause it to do so. Therefore comprehensibility is equivalent to explanation and description.

Roadkill on the information superhighway

Vader — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:58:17 +0000

I’m so confused.

Viruses protect you from type 1 diabetes. Or give it to you.

Redefining expectations downwards

Vader — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 01:16:52 +0000

Obama administration encouraged by steady unemployment rate.

Sad thing is, I think no increase in unemployment is relatively good news, too.

Though I worry that the Tea Party folks will be indiscriminate in their cuts when the revolution comes, and Death Star Inc. will suffer.

Clever, but so wrong

Vader — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:16:51 +0000

Bidding war for lost Ipod.

Kosher Narnia

Adam Greenwood — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:04:39 +0000

So Aslan smites his enemies hip and thigh? I’d read it. Except that’s pretty much already in the Christian Narnia.

Take your child to work day

Vader — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 04:46:20 +0000

It can be overdone.

Selling Britain down the river

Vader — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:03:25 +0000

Over the Falklands.

I’m not happy about the direction Britain is taking, but the Falklanders are overwhelmingly in favor of remaining British. So what is there to negotiate about?

Guilty until proven innocent

Vader — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:47:13 +0000

Seems to be the rule with sex offenses.

I have no brief for sexual criminals. I have loved ones who were victims of sexual abuse.

But the way California’s sex offender registry is run simply invites a different kind of abuse.

The more vile the crime, the greater the need to protect the rights of those accused of it until the state proves their guilt beyond a reasonable doubt to a jury.

Has Carthage finally triumphed over Rome?

Vader — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:58:32 +0000

Via Hugh Hewitt:

The list is long. I believe abortion is the foundational human rights issue of our lifetime. We need to do everything we can to support women in their pregnancies and to end the legal killing of unborn children. We may want to remember that the Romans had a visceral hatred for Carthage not because Carthage was a commercial rival, or because its people had a different language and customs. The Romans hated Carthage above all because its people sacrificed their infants to Ba’al. For the Romans, who themselves were a hard people, that was a unique kind of wickedness and barbarism. As a nation, we might profitably ask ourselves whom and what we’ve really been worshipping [sic] in our 40 million “legal” abortions since 1973.