John Stewart has been on form: More on McCain’s monster from Al-Jazeera:

Probably nothing right? Probably some fringe group – you certainly wouldn’t see it on the Sacramento Republicans’ website. Not now anyway, because they took it down. Or maybe they were just joking like the California Republicans who printed fliers with … Continue reading →

Andrew Sullivan uses Hitchens’s defection to the Obama camp as an excuse to repeat his own mea culpa over his early support for Bush and the invasion of Iraq. I don’t regret my support for the president after 9/11. In … Continue reading →

Another prominent conservative sees the light. Christopher Buckley endorsed Obama last week and endured the inevitable firestorm. Since my Obama endorsement, Kathleen and I have become BFFs and now trade incoming hate-mails. No one has yet suggested my dear old … Continue reading →

Rob Smyth, in The Guardian, blames Lampard and Gerrard for compromising England’s one world-class attacking talent. Scientists claim that Consciousness is the hard problem, but the Lampard and Gerrard problem is hard too. If we could find a decent goalkeeper … Continue reading →

Michael Shermer has a review of Stuart Kauffman’s Reinventing the Sacred. I’ve often wondered about the attempts to either explain phenomena like conscsiousness, free will and intelligence in terms of physics, chemistry and biology. Kauffman has written a book about … Continue reading →

“I just have to rely on the good judgment of the voters not to buy into these negative attack ads. Sooner or later, people are going to figure out if all you run is negative attack ads you don’t have … Continue reading →

It’s a strange kind of world when I come over all nostalgic for Thatcher. The comparisons come flooding in to my mind. Why don’t American presidents – or candidates – ever face the public like this? America has lowered the … Continue reading →

According to Johnathon Haidt at The Edge, our morality springs from five universal principles that are present in every society: Preventing harm Promoting fairness Being loyal to your group Respecting authority Desire for purity To illustrate these principles, the Mousetrap … Continue reading →