http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2013/07/31/nope-drug-testing-doesnt-save-money/
---SPSmith
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Friday, July 26, 2013
Thursday, July 25, 2013
Slate: Lennon + McCartney = Nilsson
I thought you would like this article from The Slate Magazine for iPad
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doi:10.1016/j.annemergmed.2013.05.030
Despite public perception to the contrary,12,46,47 when all types of injuries are considered together, rural areas, not urban, bear a disproportionate amount of injury-related mortality risk in the United States
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Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Eye on Psych: The Myth of Catharsis: Why Ranting and Venting are Terrible Ways to Handle Anger
http://scottsworlds.blogspot.com.au/2013/07/the-myth-of-catharsis-why-ranting-and.html
However, decades of research have shown that venting, far from
releasing anger, actually makes it worse
---SPSmith
However, decades of research have shown that venting, far from
releasing anger, actually makes it worse
---SPSmith
Saturday, July 20, 2013
20 Great Insults from Science Fiction and Fantasy Books
http://io9.com/20-great-insults-from-science-fiction-and-fantasy-books-826828044
disposition of a grizzly bear with hemorrhoids trying to pass pinecones
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disposition of a grizzly bear with hemorrhoids trying to pass pinecones
---SPSmith
Thursday, July 18, 2013
Monday, July 15, 2013
Sunday, July 14, 2013
Friday, July 12, 2013
Thursday, July 11, 2013
Rationally Speaking: Democracy: the Egyptian conundrum
Contra what many of my secular humanist and atheist friends seem to think, it is not necessary for religious discourse to be sealed off from the public square. It is perfectly all right — indeed, inevitable — for politicians, say, to be guided in their thinking by their religious faith. What is not acceptable is the advancement of religious arguments when it comes to policy debates. Rather, the religious person needs to translate his objections (or positive proposals) into neutral language that can be debated on secular (in the sense above, not as in "secular humanism") terms.
---SPSmith
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Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Tuesday, July 09, 2013
Sunday, July 07, 2013
Saturday, July 06, 2013
Friday, July 05, 2013
Thursday, July 04, 2013
Victor J. Willi: Letter From Cairo
Once again it showed the Brotherhood's limited understanding of democracy, which is restricted to the mechanics of voting, elections and ballot boxes, while showing precious little appreciation for the values that make up the essence of a democracy, such as the rule of law, citizenship, equality and human rights
Wednesday, July 03, 2013
Rationally Speaking: Theories of truth
"morality is a biological and cultural adaptation for increasing the benefits of cooperation in groups. No big surprise there."
---SPSmith
Tuesday, July 02, 2013
Paula Deen's Ugly Roots : The New Yorker
The controversy stems from a suit brought by a former employee, who claims, among other things, that Deen presided over a culture of racial and sexual impropriety, particularly at Uncle Bubba's Oyster House, the Savannah restaurant Deen set up for her brother, Bubba Hiers: pornography in the workplace, racial insults, nostalgia for the antebellum South. (In planning Bubba's wedding, the employee asserts in the complaint, Deen allegedly said, "I want a true southern plantation-style wedding.… Well what I would really like is a bunch of little n-----s to wear long-sleeve white shirts, black shorts and black bow ties, you know in the Shirley Temple days, they used to tap dance around.") In other words, we now have "Kitchen Confidential: Georgia Edition," with an inverted power structure and markedly un-Vassar politics.
---SPSmith
Monday, July 01, 2013
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