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Archive for September 30th, 2008

My MLA is a far-out guy

September 30th, 2008 | 1 Comment

I find that I now live in the Nova Scotia provincial constituency of Hants West. My MLA is Chuck Porter and, judging by this sign recently seen in downtown Windsor, he sets a very high standard for community service. Clearly, whoever runs against Chuck Porter in the next provincial election will have to go a [...]

Liberals fear a world without intense feelings and experiences

September 30th, 2008 | 2 Comments

Social psychologists have occasionally published studies purporting to show that those favouring conservative political views are cold-hearted egoists with authoritarian and reactionary tendencies and irrational fears of anarchy, sexual promiscuity, and happiness.  (OK, I made up that last one.) Now comes a study claiming to show that liberals are also driven by fear.  A psychology [...]

John Cleese takes on scientism

September 30th, 2008 | 1 Comment

Needless to say, scientism loses. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M-vnmejwXo[/youtube] More John Cleese podcasts here. h/t: Reasoning Repaired via Thinking Christian.

Media ignore scholarly interest in Christian thought

September 30th, 2008 | 1 Comment

A professor at Macquarie University, Australia, criticises mainstream media’s sensationalistic approach to Christianity and its critics. He suggests that the media should pay more attention to scholarly debates concerning the relationship between Christianity and the public good. A MEDIA preoccupation with sensationalist critics of religion drowns out the many intellectual voices who claim a significant [...]

A move across the country and a new blog

September 30th, 2008 | 11 Comments

As readers of my former blog Magic Statistics will know, I recently retired and moved from Canada’s frozen North-West to its hurricane-prone South-East. In 1988, my wife and I moved from Vancouver, BC, to Whitehorse, Yukon, where I worked as a statistician for 20 years. Last month, we sold our house and moved to the [...]