Ragged Clown

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Monthly Archives: January 2007

Jan
25
2007

The Persistance of Memory

The Guardian gets a lot of stick but, every now and again, they have some extremely fine writing. Here’s some. Now we seem to think every terrorist attack puts us in the same rank of suffering as the generations of … Continue reading

Jan
25
2007

Ignosticism

I came across this word today. Ignosticism is the view that the question of the existence of God is meaningless because it has no verifiable (or testable) consequences and should therefore be ignored. It’s a nice word. Many of my … Continue reading

Jan
23
2007

The Great Car Singing Debate

Where do you stand on this most important of issues? Scott Adams is against it. Scott Adams thinks that Car singers believe they have an unalienable right to sing along with the music even if it does make other people … Continue reading

Jan
14
2007

Teach the Controversy

Excellent Doonesbury over at Slate today about the global warming controversy and the dioxin controversy and ….

Jan
8
2007

What’s that you say General?

I have been outrageously busy for the last couple of weeks so I have not been keeping up with the news but, last night, I finally caught up with my Jim Lehrer’s New Hour watching and…it was disturbing. One of … Continue reading

Jan
6
2007

Terry Jones is a very funny man

He is also very good when he is serious as he is in his occasional op-ed pieces that he writes for The Guardian. Like this one. Early this year the Bush administration is to ask Congress to approve an additional … Continue reading

Jan
5
2007

A Slippery Trinity

Whenever there is a discussion of whether gods exist the discussion always flits between three distinct definitions of god. Old man with a beard who hears our prayers, created the earth and intervenes in our daily affairs and performs miracles. … Continue reading

Jan
5
2007

Spammer’s Irony

I wonder if a spammer would appreciate the irony that I am getting loads of comments to my entry A Pyramid of Spam saying “Thanks! I will spread this among my friends!”.

Jan
4
2007

The Brights

A long time ago, Bob asked Maybe. I have to learn more about the brights. Is there a good website? but I did not notice because I had not subscribed to his comments. Let that be a lesson to all … Continue reading