Gore Vidal Continues To Amaze

http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/the_way_we_live/article6854221.ece

Outer, Inner - GKC

"The outer ring of Christianity," wrote G. K. Chesterton in Orthodoxy, one hundred years ago, "is a rigid guard of ethical abnegations and professional priests; but inside that inhuman guard you will find the old human life dancing like children, and drinking wine like men; for Christianity is the only frame for pagan freedom."
His next sentence is as chilling as the previous is warming. "But in the modern philosophy the case is the opposite; it is its outer ring that is obviously artistic and emancipated; its despair is within."

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2009/septemberweb-only/135-51.0.html

Newt on Health Care

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204488304574425324084867640.html

Oh, great.

http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/sep/09091110.html

Technically , I Should Not Find This Funny

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/12_year_old_boy_scouts_volunteer?utm_source=infocus

Climate Change & the Failure of Democracy

"We are going to have to look how authoritarian decisions based on consensus science can be implemented to contain greenhouse emissions."

http://www.greenwood.com/catalog/C34504.aspx

Holmes Meets Conan Doyle (thanks to McIntyre)

http://www.bookviewcafe.com/index.php/Vonda-N.-McIntyre/Novellas/Novelettes/A-Sherlock-Holmes-story-by-Vonda-N.-McIntyre

Terry Goodkind's Law

Wizard's First Rule:

People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true. People’s heads are full of knowledge, facts, and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool.

Sunspots 'n Earthquakes

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZDA1ODcxZmUyYjJmMjQ0YjcwYmVjYWU4NTRjNDdhY2Y=

Sunspots, etc.

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZmU0NDMzZTlkM2E5MDBhY2Q4N2ViYTFkNjVmNzU5NTc=