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Magnificent Bastard

Nicola di Bowery wrote 1 day ago: Qualche giorno fa sfogliavo il nuovo Lexicographer’s Dilemma. The Evolution of “Proper … more →

Tags: Almanacco Dentro il Cerchio, America English, inglese, Jack Lynch, Lexicographer's Dilemma, Libertà di parola, Língua, Our Magnificent Bastartd Tongue, Traduzione

You Can Only Ignore The Philandering Golfer In The Room For So Long1 comment

aroundthesphere wrote 2 days ago: The more interesting Tiger posts out there, meditations on various themes: Matt Feeney at The Americ … more →

Tags: Families, New Media, Race, Sports, business insider, conor friedersdorf, Gordon Crovitz, Matt Feeney, Matthew Yglesias

FAULTY TECHNIQUE (by John McWhorter)10 comments

jazzlives wrote 1 week ago: In the December 14, 2009 issue of THE NEW YORKER, the book review is given over to Terry Teachout … more →

Tags: Awful Sad, It's A Mystery, Jazz Titans, The Things We Love, Arnold Palmer, Charlie Holmes, jazz blog, Jazz Lives, joe louis

a war not worth fighting2 comments

Stephen wrote 3 weeks ago: While it is puzzling that he sets 2014 as a deadline, John McWhorter is right once again to point to … more →

Tags: governance, war on drugs, Marijuana, Nancy Reagan

Babel 2.0?

Lisa Pampuch wrote 1 month ago: Linguist and Columbia University professor John McWhorter, writing in World Affairs, wonders how dev … more →

Tags: Caught My Eye, Critical Thinking, logic, Reason, English, language, Linguistics, World Affairs

How Michael Behe Was Pulled from Bloggingheads.tv21 comments

fleance7 wrote 2 months ago: Christianity Today gives the story behind this incident, which seems to reveal a selective intoleran … more →

Tags: Culture, intelligent design, bloggingheads, edge of evolution, Interview, intolerance, michael behe, Robert Wright

John McWhorter's Controversial Webcast Causes Confusion 6 comments

Michael wrote 3 months ago: Dr. John McWhorter who is a linguist by practice and who also doesn’t believe in the existence … more →

Tags: Cell Biology, Creationism, Evolution, intelligent design, michael behe, bloggingheads.tv, Robert Wright

Are 35% of Democrats Truthers?

tom279 wrote 3 months ago: Jane Hamsher, founder of the wildly popular leftwing blog, Firedoglake, thinks so: I first met Van J … more →

Tags: discussion, Van Jones, jane hamsher, firedoglake, Tom Maguire, Just One Minute, Truther, Democrats, Democrat Truthers

The Evolution Of A Blogginghead; Or The Ballad Of Jim And Jerry1 comment

aroundthesphere wrote 3 months ago: Earlier, we updated “B-head On The G-head” to include Jim Manzi’s post at Sully … more →

Tags: New Media, Books, Religion, Science, bloggingheads, Noah Millman, the new republic, The American Scene, Jim Manzi

Too Much Bob, Not Enough Regulation

Joseph Steinberg wrote 3 months ago: I waited for Bob Wright’s apology, and instead he went on and on about his own foibles. Reveal … more →

Tags: Politics, Religion, Science, BHTV, George Johnson, intelligent design, Robert Wright, michael behe, Ronald Numbers

Behe’s “objectionable” interview reinstated3 comments

Ken wrote 3 months ago: A few days ago (see Behe’s “objectionable” interview) I complained about the “interview” … more →

Tags: Religion, Diversity, Science, Evolution, Creationism, Human Rights, Faith, God, Belief

Irreducible Stupidity

melendwyr wrote 3 months ago: By now, there’s a good chance you’ve already heard about the McWhorter-Behe diavlog on B … more →

Tags: DOOM, gigo, stupidity, censorship, Evolution, bloggingheads.tv, Creationism, irreducible complexity, michael behe

Behe's "objectionable" interview1 comment

Ken wrote 3 months ago: Image via Wikipedia What’s going on with bloggingheads.tv? I usually enjoy the programmes, reg … more →

Tags: Religion, Science, Evolution, Creationism, Christianity, Faith, God, Belief, Behe

Cornel West: The Modern day Griot (Part 2)

raincoatoptimism wrote 3 months ago: Cornel Ronald West was born June 2nd 1953 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He was in his teenage years when his a … more →

Tags: Cornel West, Slavoj Zizek, Barack Obama, Robert Nozick, Al Sharpton, Lawrence H. Summers, Bill Bradley, Marxism

The Term "African-American" Was Tried and is Too Tired!

Will Wright wrote 3 months ago: Why do people, who descend from African slaves, call themselves African-Americans – what is the valu … more →

Tags: Public Affairs, multi-racial, multi-ethnic, African-American, cultural diversity, black, Afro-American, ethnic terminology, Jesse Jackson

A pox on Shakespeare in "translation"

emsworth wrote 4 months ago: Perhaps high schoolers should simply be issued Little Golden Book editions of Romeo and Juliet The l … more →

Tags: Shakespeare and the Stratford Festival, Antoni Cimolino, Bertie Wooster, Kent Richmond, macbeth, p. g. wodehouse, Shakespeare in translation, verse translation

a long journey

Stephen wrote 4 months ago: Although the recent arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. in Cambridge, Massachusetts was apparently not … more →

Tags: governance, Culture, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Edmund Burke, war on drugs, Prohibition

McWhorter on SCOTUS and Race

heloise8 wrote 5 months ago: from The New Republic … more →

Tags: Government Trough, Disparate Impact, New Republic, SCOTUS

For All Of Us Old Enough To Remember "Thriller..." Update: Michael Jackson (1958-2009)6 comments

aroundthesphere wrote 5 months ago: Michael Jackson has apparently had a heart attack. TMZ LA Times NPR Allah Pundit He wasn’t breathing … more →

Tags: Music, andrew sullivan, Michelle Malkin, Jonah Goldberg, Digby, James Joyner, The League of Ordinary Gentlemen, Rod Dreher, ann althouse


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