You’ve got to love Elvis Costello, who is telling his fans NOT to buy his latest box set because it’s too expensive, but to instead buy that of Louis Armstrong, whose music is “vastly superior.” Just in time for the holidays, Elvis Costello has a
You’ve got to love Elvis Costello, who is telling his fans NOT to buy his latest box set because it’s too expensive, but to instead buy that of Louis Armstrong, whose music is “vastly superior.” Just in time for the holidays, Elvis Costello has a
Foreigners are fascinated by American diners, seeing them as icons of American culture. So says the BBCg: Sitting in a diner, on the inside looking outside. This is a quintessential American experience. Add a booth, a Formica counter and a cup of joe – as
What do you think of this possibility–not a third party, but a coalition ticket elected by the public via the internet? The restless political middle — emboldened by the recent inability of a special congressional committee to agree on a debt-reduction deal — is staking
Marquette philosophy professor Howard Kainz reviews two new books in which atheist scholars critique Darwinism: Surprisingly, two recent books by atheist philosophers of science have joined with ID theorists in the criticism of neo-Darwinism. Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, in What Darwin Got Wrong come
Indignant complaints about Siri, the virtual personal assistant on the new iPhones, which will give you information about just about everything, but not where you can get an abortion: If you ask Siri for an abortion clinic in New York City, it will tell you
Far more subversive to the true meaning of Christmas than the secularizers is the “naughty or nice” legalism of “Elf on the Shelf”: Who can resist the holiday fun of scaring the children into good behavior? Ask any of history’s most efficient dictators — they’ll
Frank Sonnek, frequent commenter on this blog, has found some interesting data and raises some interesting questions about our defense budget: our military spending exceeds ALL global military spending if you don’t count china, which spends about 15% of what we spend. some analyses relate military
The European economy is in a state of crisis, to the point that some people are thinking that the Euro, the pan-European currency (except for the British pound a few others), may be finished. Some businesses are planning what to do if the Euro ceases
Christmas time is here, so it must be time for controversies over Christmas displays at the county courthouse. Every year we have one here in Loudon County, Virginia. Having a Nativity Scene, including one that had been donated by a local family and that had
How’s this for a use of technology? A Stradivarius violin has been “recreated” using an X-ray scanner normally used to detect cancers and injuries, according to researchers. The US-based group used a computerised axial tomography (CAT) scanner on the 307-year-old instrument to reveal its secrets.
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