Been busy, so here’s a few links of interest:

• The denial of human nature: Christ Against the Multiculturalists. How “higher” education destroys our humanity through false equality:
   

  Here is how the game is played: They will first try to convince you that you are a racist, a sexist, and an enemy of social justice. Then they will argue that the victims of racism, sexism, and cultural elitism have a privileged view of these issues. It is as if the victim of the crime were to be given the first, last, and only word in a trial, with no cross-examination and no other witnesses called. Your job as a student in the multicultural classroom is to grant unquestioned authority to those who come from underprivileged or marginalized backgrounds. You have to do this because, you will learn, because Western culture has exploited every other culture, and your experiences are so shaped by Western culture that you cannot question those who criticize you. And thus you will become a good cultural leftist (which is the shape liberalism takes in the academy), or, if you are not convinced by these arguments, you will learn how to fake it for the sake of getting a good grade.

• If you’re gonna moon someone, be sure to have a Trojan nearby: Did Earth once have multiple moons?
• Does Jeremiah Wright = the black church?: Examining the United Church of Christ
• The Anchoress on the loneliness of a lost generation: Progressively lonely and longing
• Gagdad Bob on the irrationality of scientism: If Darwinism is True, it Can’t Be

Take care, God bless.

• Shipwreck photography: The Beauty and the Mystery of the Wrecked Ships
• The lost art of grammer: What’s a Participle?
• Man is inherently good … or not: we are all capable of evil
• The medical Sopranos: The Health Insurance Mafia
• Fingerpainting in human blood: On the Banality of Abortion as Art
• Sorry, your doctor can’t see you now: As Doctors Get a Life, Strains Show
• Destroying new cars: I linked to Wired’s story on the men who salvaged the ship recently. Here’s what they did with the cars: A Crushing Issue: How to Destroy Brand-New Cars
• So that’s what they carry in their legal briefs: What is the “sex toy controversy” at the UW Law School?. Imagine the blaring NYT headlines: “Dean Dickey disses dildos — damsels dismayed.” Best line is in the comments: “Now, now, Dean Dickey is no one to play around with. He’s a real stiff. If you play around with him he might erupt. And nobody wants to see that.” Another points to, err, inflatable sheep. Jeez. or perhaps better, ewe.

That’s all for now — God bless.

Perhaps we could teach the Republicans in congress to do this … naaah, not smart enough …

Here’s some links from the past week or so — enjoy:

• Non-profit hospitals strike it rich: Nonprofit Hospitals, Once For the Poor, Strike It Rich. Spot-on in my experience.
• Predatory lawyers: Small Victories for Tort Reform
• Racial pandering: Obama and King
• VDH takes on airlines, universities, and modern illiberal liberalism: Liberalism—a Strange Thing Indeed. Maybe someday, before they all go bankrupt, airlines will discover something call customer service...
• Smart guy reads the manual, and discovers the author: I’ve found God, says man who cracked the genome.
• Air conditioning not needed: 5 Incredible Buildings Made of Ice
• Preventive medicine costs more, not less: It’s Often Cheaper To Let People Get Sick (HT: Maggies Farm)
• Cracking the Enigma: Solving the Enigma Search: how the Allies cracked the German code machine.
• The Emperor has no clothes: American Apparel Bares All
• Flying aircraft carriers: Convair B-36, the flying aircraft carrier
• Cool RegEx testing site: … and if you don’t know what RegEx is, well .. don’t bother. (Hint: it’s a unix text searching tool): RegExr Online
• Surf’s up: Surprised by a hurricane — and has the pictures to prove it: The Storm. Too many exclamation points, but great pictures.

Back soon — take care, God bless.

• On forgiveness & race: An Open Letter to Senator Obama
• Neuhaus on ‘The Speech’: quietly demolishing Obam Obama Dana: The Strange Ways of Black Folk
• Watch out for customers with swinging watches: ‘Hypnotist’ thief hunted in Italy
• Elephants in the living room: QandO on the Medicare and Social Security financial black hole. Let’s expand these programs, shall we?
• Mug not, lest ye be mugged: A Victim Treats his Mugger to Dinner. Here’s another, somewhat different approach: “And then I kicked him in the teeth”.

That’s all for now, God bless, back soon.

• Those hateful, racist fundamentalists: Vanderleun goes looking for racism and hate in a broad swath of fundamentalist churches — and finds it in a most surprising place: Graven Images: Racist Fundamentalist Churches of America
• Of course, you know, this means war: the intractable, insoluble problem of web standards and OS upgrades: no winners, no matter how they’re handled — Martian Headsets
• Hand these suggestions to your doctor at your next visit: How to Improve Your Rapport Development — after he’s checked your prostate, if you’re wise.
• Not just for programmers: 10 Ways to Improve Your Programming Productivity
• Shattner before paunch and Priceline: CBS puts full videos of the early seasons of Star Trek online — as well as another favorite: Twilight Zone.
• One safe cat: How Apple’s new Leopard OS is more secure: How Leopard Will Improve Your Security
• Unweb motherhood: … And Baby Makes Two
• Fragile families research: Fragile Families
• The Anchoress on race: Obama, Psychic duality & the churches
  

  It has been exceedingly difficult to discuss race in this nation for about 30 years, because anytime anyone - white or black - has tried to make a serious point, the word “racist!” is immediately flung out; lasting and damaging labels are instantly attached to people, and so everyone just shuts down. People guard their words and swallow provocative debating points - even if their aim is to generate a real, open and honest forum of ideas - because no one wants to be called a racist. This happened to Bill Clinton and to Bill Cosby; it happened to Rush Limbaugh and Geraldine Ferraro, and driving today I heard the word spat out at Sean Hannity. It happened to me, actually, last week, when I was called a “racist” on another blog for writing this; I was also deemed “hypersensitive” about being called a racist.

• Bombed by grace: One common argument against the existence of God is the existence of evil: how can an all-powerful, all-good God permit evil? But the knife cuts both ways: without a good and merciful God, how can goodness arise out of unspeakable evil? Grace’s Great Raid
• Well, there’s always at least one person who will listen to you …: Talking to yourself

That’s all for now, God bless.