Sun Jan 27, 2008 – 11:42 am
Blazing Cat Fur gives us the latest on whether someone’s saucer of milk is half full or half empty. Warning: Adult Content.
H/T to Five Feet of FuryÂ
Addendum: Visual Aid:
Fri Jan 25, 2008 – 12:46 pm
Alternate caption: I don’t allow comments.
Thu Jan 24, 2008 – 10:20 pm
Once I thought I saw you in a crowded hazy bar,
Dancing on the light from star to star.
Far across the moonbeam I know thats who you are,
I saw your brown eyes turning once to fire.
You are like a hurricane
Theres calm in your eye.
And Im gettin blown away
To somewhere safer where the feeling stays.
I want […]
Wed Jan 23, 2008 – 10:45 pm
No major libel case has emerged since the advent of the blogosphere.
Read the whole thing
H/T Captain Ed
Memory refresh on Captain Ed:
April 2, 2005
Canada’s Corruption Scandal Breaks Wide Open
A political scandal involving the Public Works Ministry, a government effort called the Sponsorship Program, and allegations of corruption in the ruling Liberal Party has Canada […]
Mon Jan 21, 2008 – 9:32 am
The Church was keenly opposed to such fatalism. On April 22nd, 1604, the Inquisition formulated its charge against Galileo Galilei, lecturer in mathematics, whereby he was accused of ‘haver ragionato che le stelle, i pianeti at gl’influssi celesti necessitino [10] - he had reasoned that the stars, planets and celestial influences were able to […]
Sat Jan 19, 2008 – 8:48 pm
As pope, Benedict XVI has never directly intervened on this topic. But of extraordinary interest for understanding his thought is the reply that he gave in Saint Peter’s Square on April 6, 2006, to a 17-year-old high school student who had asked him “how to harmonize science and faith.”
Here is the pope’s reply:
“THE GREAT GALILEO […]
Thu Jan 17, 2008 – 10:07 pm
So, for the first time in years, I signed a petition. This one supports Pope Benedict, and decries the censorship from La Sapienza. I’m not the only Jewish intellectual on the list, either: there’s Giorgio Israel, a professor of mathematics, who in his spare time has done some of the best historical work on antisemitism […]
Thu Jan 17, 2008 – 8:47 pm
The Thomist philosopher Etienne Gilson vigorously contended in his 1971 book From Aristotle to Darwin and Back Again that Francis Bacon and others perpetrated a philosophical error when they eliminated two of Aristotle’s four causes from the purview of science. They sought to explain everything in mechanistic terms, referring only to material and efficient causes […]
Thu Jan 17, 2008 – 12:41 pm
3. What is the origin of Cuba’s independent library movement?
In response to a public statement by President Fidel Castro that “There are no prohibited books in Cuba, only a lack of money to purchase them,” Cuba’s first independent library, named in honor of Felix Varela, was opened in 1998 in the city […]
Thu Jan 17, 2008 – 10:34 am
“So there are three places where the pope cannot go: Moscow, Beijing and the university of Rome,” said one student at yesterday’s papal audience.
Fr Raymond De Souza weighs in
