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• Ex-tabloid editor says Tiger Woods missed chances to refocus media

  
  The Editors' Desk — Authority: 125
  Identifying himself as a golf nut and former tabloid news editor — he was a senior editor at the New York Post in the ’90s — John Cassidy writes on the New Yorker web site that Tiger Woods totally mismanaged media…
  17 hours ago

• Ephemeral Ruminations: The Oil Drum | There is plenty of oil but . . .

  
  Seven Generational Ruminations — Authority: 143
  Article Reference:  http://delicious.com/reikiman The Oil Drum | There is plenty of oil but . . . Battery Startup Imara Shuts Down After Funding Troubles ...
  4 days ago

• Robert Benjamin on the Irrational Rationality of Mediation Models

  
  Cross Collaborate — Authority: 407
  Robert Benjamin recently published another of his typically thoughtful and provocative essays at Mediate.com . On Becoming a Rationally Irrational Mediator/Negotiator is the first part of an ambitious five-part series on the role of the irrational in conflict resolution. In this first installment, Benjamin sets the ...
  4 days ago

• Pew survey shows that evangelical Christian Republicans are the most rational

  
  Wintery Knight — Authority: 539
  The Pew Research survey is here . They are trying to see which groups believe in superstitions and new age mysticism. Here are the parts that I found interesting: Click for full image. Click for full image. Notice the numbers for Republicans vs Democrats, conservatives vs. liberals, and church-attending ...
  5 days ago

• Not only that, Patricia, but I get paid for it, too.

  
  NA Confidential — Authority: 430
  The following letter to the editor appeared in last week’s Tribune , perhaps on Tuesday, although it was not archived on-line. Note the header, and the complete absence of a connection between it and the muddled thinking of the writer. What if I titled this post, "Another satisfied reader of NA Health ?" ...
  5 days ago

• The Structural Impossibility of America

  
  Just Above Sunset — Authority: 127
  It may be that the whole idea of government by the people, of the people and for the people was based on a misconception about people, even if it seemed like a good idea at the time. And it was quite a time. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (Déclaration des droits de l’Homme et du citoyen) ...
  1 week ago

• A big picture snapshot

  
  samadhisoft.com — Authority: 103
  - A friend wrote me the other day about CO2 and said that most of the folks who are out there talking about CO2 and its dangers sound a bit like Chicken Little.  He said there must be places out there on the web where one can get a more balanced presentation of the issues.  And asked if I could direct him to such. ...
  1 week ago

• Nothing Defines Humans Better

  
  The Napkin Dad Daily — Authority: 127
  This is a cynical quote I know, and I am usually not a cynical guy. This quote is also a pretty accurate observation about the lengths to which we humans will go to feel secure. When I say feel secure I am not talking about actually being secure. I am talking about having the hope, the assumption, the desire for ...
  1 week ago

• Peak oil denial diagnosed with neoclassical autism | Energy Bulletin

  
  Seven Generational Ruminations — Authority: 143
  Economists like to suggest that energy is like any other commodity, and that one energy form can be substituted for another. The term is "elasticity". But it shows they are lost in their equations and have no common sense. Obviously oil serves a different function than coal, but theyre both "energy". Hence if you ...
  1 week ago

• Peak oil denial diagnosed with neoclassical autism | Energy Bulletin

  
  Seven Generational Ruminations — Authority: 143
  Economists like to suggest that energy is like any other commodity, and that one energy form can be substituted for another. The term is "elasticity". But it shows they are lost in their equations and have no common sense. Obviously oil serves a different function than coal, but theyre both "energy". Hence if you ...
  1 week ago

• Albinos hide in fear of their lives

  
  samadhisoft.com — Authority: 103
  - Education is the future.  There are those who think that a good look at their holy book will be sufficient to keep them safe and the world running right.  But it isn’t so. - This kind of cultural backwater stupidity could be wiped out in time if  we, as a species, would create societies with our own ...
  1 week ago

• Gifts 101

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  Recently George Will published a column bemoaning the economic irrationality of holiday gift-giving. Im as happy as the next guy to read something scroogy at this time of the year, but his column misses the boat pretty badly. Therefore, I offer the following contribution to Mr. Wills understanding; think of it as ...
  1 week ago

• Because this strategy worked so well before

  
  Hodak Value — Authority: 116
  The news from GM is that Edward Whitacre, Chairman and now CEO of GM, is going to push for market share .  We’ve seen this picture before .
  2 weeks ago

• Podcast Teaser: Why rationality?

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  Dear readers, Rationally Speaking is soon going to be (also) a podcast, produced by  New York City Skeptics , and co-hosted by Julia Galef and yours truly. Before each (initially biweekly, starting at the end of January) episode we will publish a “teaser” like the one below, introducing the topic of that episode ...
  2 weeks ago

• How to respond to postmodernism, relativism, subjectivism, pluralism and skepticism

  
  Wintery Knight — Authority: 539
  Four articles from Paul Copan over at the UK site “BeThinking”. Each article responds to a different slogan that you might hear if you’re dealing with non-Christians on the street. “That’s just your interpretation!” Some of his possible responses: Gently ask, ‘Do you mean that your interpretation ...
  2 weeks ago

• Introducing Kyle Brady

  
  Northloop Neighborhoods - Community News & Directory — Authority: 166
  Starting Monday, I’ll be a contributor here at Donklephant, typically posting Mondays and Thursdays, writing carefully structured and thought-out small essays on topics that are at least tangentially related to American politics.  If you want to get a feel for my OpEd style, which is what these pieces will be, you ...
  3 weeks ago

• Amy Alkon was a perfect child, apparently

  
  Wallaby — Authority: 115
  Shorter Amy Alkon : I didn’t get to scream in public when I was a child, so neither should anyone else. SRSLY. Of course, Ms Alkon is basing this on her recollection. I’m sure that, like most people, she doesn’t remember very much before the ages of 4 or 5, probably not daily events even after those ages, and ...
  3 weeks ago

• Honoring the Opposition

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 449
  I used my lunch hour to (finally) watch the Book TV broadcast of Howard Dean at Politics and Prose last August promoting his book on health care reform. While I did not disagree with any of his major points, I found myself disconcerted by his worldview of political practice, which reflected a naïveté that may ...
  4 weeks ago

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