by Carl Howard | Jul 7, 2010 | Blog Topics, Interesting Stuff, Language
To start with, I humbly ask the reader to pronounce these two words out aloud. If you’re not sure, do your best: victuals, island. Within the realm of science/atheist/philosophy blogosphere, spelling and grammar pedantry abounds. I’ve found the stereotype of the...
by Carl Howard | Jul 2, 2010 | Blog Topics, Links
“Across the Sahel region, an estimated 10 million people are at risk of famine…WFP is $22 million short of the $124 million it needs to purchase 113,000 mt of food for Niger…’”we estimate our needs at 100,000 tonnes of cereals. So far, we have received...
by Carl Howard | Jul 1, 2010 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Blogging the Bible
The next few chapters contain some of the most advanced story-telling in the Bible, something worthy of authors paying attention. And I do mean story-telling. From my Completely UnbiasedTM reading, the odds of these having any kind of historical basis (even if David...
by Carl Howard | Jun 22, 2010 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Blogging the Bible
Advice on Scheming Now that David is properly fleeing from Saul, he concocts an interesting plan with Jonathan. Part one of the plan: David is absent from two consecutive dinners at Saul’s household. The first night Saul, thinks David’s just “unclean” from a seminal...
by Carl Howard | Jun 16, 2010 | Biases and Fallacies, Blog Topics, Charity and Philanthropy, Science and Skepticism
About 8 months ago I did a post about World Food Day where I mentioned microfinance (especially Kiva.org) as a great way of doing more useful things with donor funds. Skeptical fail: I applied an abysmal level of critical thinking to the area of charities/development....
by Carl Howard | Jun 15, 2010 | Blog Topics, Ethics, Evolution and Biology, Philosophy
[This post is a follow-up to my 5 min challenge to readers I posted last week. To get the most out of it, please do the challenge first.] In the last post, I presented a disturbing video of cow/calf abuse at a dairy farm. The context was not to see it in terms of...
