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• Because this strategy worked so well before

  
  Hodak Value — Authority: 115
  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 .
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• Podcast Teaser: Why rationality?

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  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 days ago

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

  
  Wintery Knight — Authority: 427
  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 ...
  4 days ago

• Introducing Kyle Brady

  
  Northloop Neighborhoods - Community News & Directory — Authority: 167
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Amy Alkon was a perfect child, apparently

  
  Wallaby — Authority: 526
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Honoring the Opposition

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 451
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Einsteins Political Incoherence

  
  Incentives Matter — Authority: 129
  In a comment to my post on why western intellectuals supported soviet tyranny , pete5594 reminds us that Einstein was among the many high-profile intellectuals that chose to not dennounce the Soviet Union. Einsteins unsophisticated political and economic beliefs also came to my mind right after I wrote that post, ...
  3 weeks ago

• What To Consider Before Buying An Extended Warranty [Bad Decisions]

  
  Consumerist — Authority: 801
  The New York Times has an article about why consumers buy extended warranties for electronic products and other appliances , especially since we rarely have enough information at the moment of sale to make an informed decision. Here are three things to watch out for the next time youre buying some fun electronic ...
  3 weeks ago

• Climate change scepticism grows in United States

  
  samadhisoft.com — Authority: 100
  - Given where we are in human history, this is an amazing and rather depressing story. = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = The number of Americans who believe there is solid evidence the Earth is warming because of pollution is at its lowest point in three years, a survey suggests. A poll ...
  5 weeks ago

• “Is this America?”

  
  Hodak Value — Authority: 115
  Floyd Norris makes a good case that bankers get paid so much mainly because banks make so much money.  So, he contends that if you want to reduce banker’s pay, you have to reduce bank profits.  I don’t have much animus about other people’s pay or profits, but I think he asks a good question about whether the ...
  5 weeks ago

• Starting the day with horror and incredulity

  
  Wallaby — Authority: 526
  There is a homeless guy who sits outside my building every morning. He says g’day to the people he recognises. I always say good morning. I’ve noticed other people sometimes stop to chat at length. He begs. Lately, he’s been getting a bit more insistent on the begging front. I hope he’s doing ok. This ...
  5 weeks ago

• PM warns of climate ‘catastrophe’

  
  samadhisoft.com — Authority: 100
  The UK faces a “catastrophe” of floods, droughts and killer heatwaves if world leaders fail to agree a deal on climate change, the prime minister has warned. Gordon Brown said negotiators had 50 days to save the world from global warming and break the “impasse”. He told the Major Economies Forum in London, ...
  6 weeks ago

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