Tear Down This Firewall -- This blog is apparantly too subversive for the commies because I've been banned by the Great Firewall of China. (HT: Acton Blog)
Calvin Quoter -- Ever been frustrated because you couldn't find the reference for a quote by that great philosopher-theologian Calvin? No, I don't mean John Calvin. His stuff is easy to find. I'm talking about the other Calvin, the one with the stuffed tiger named Hobbes. Now, thanks to this super-cool transmogrifier-thingie, you can search by keyword to find Calvin's pearls of wisdom. (HT: Tim Challies) 
Red Scare -- Sure, we all know that one day California is going to break off and fall into the ocean. But do the people of San Fransisco really need to be reminded of that fact by the Red Cross? Jason DeFillippo has more photos from this disturbing ad campaign.
Your Business Blogger -- How can you tell if a job applicant will lie, cheat, and steal? He doesn't go to church.
The Daily Dalrymple -- The British physician and culture critic Theodore Dalrymple always has something interesting to say. His latest column in The New English Review is a prime example:
Two main questions arose in my mind during the neuropsychiatric conference. The first was whether any scientific self-understanding was possible. The second was whether, if possible, it was desirable. My answer to both questions was, and is, no.
In the first place I find it difficult even to conceive of what a scientific self-understanding would actually be like. My patients often used to ask me, 'Doctor, why am I like this?' or 'Why do I do the things I do?' I would sometimes then ask them what they would consider an adequate and satisfactory explanation, and not a single one (including the highly intelligent and educated) was able to tell me.
Talent Show -- This PSA is aimed at kids but its a message that should be heeded by all of us in the blogosphere:
Mean Girls -- Although the "message" of this video is the same as the one above, its even more harsh and mean. Watching this video is a reminder that teenage girls are some of the cruelest creatures on earth.
(HT: Ypulse)
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Tear Down This Firewall -- This blog is apparantly too subversive for the commies because I've been banned by the Great Firewall of China. (HT: Acton Blog)
Hmmm, it wasn't so long ago that you banned Larry from commenting on this blog. Perhaps China was not offended by you but by him. They just didn't get the word that you banned him so they banned you.
Perhaps you should write their Ministry of Censorship explaining to them that you already censored on their behalf?
posted on 03.09.2007 12:19 AM2
Joe,
I spoke to 80 high schoolers today, and it didn't go so well. Thanks for bringing me back to my past and giving me nightmares for the next two weeks. : )
posted on 03.09.2007 1:20 AM3
Boontoon,
Joe is not a government! He can "ban" as much as he wants!
posted on 03.09.2007 5:25 AM4
Actually, China doesn't have the Bill of Rights, either, do they? So I don't get the "they're a gov't" arguement.
posted on 03.09.2007 9:19 AM5
Doesn't this interesting anecdote just further make us wonder why we are putting our country into debt with China. Can one go to Wallmart to buy a toy that doesn't say Made in China?
posted on 03.09.2007 10:02 AM6
Those videos are very well done...and very true. I might repost them later.
posted on 03.09.2007 11:38 AM7
Boonton,
If Ann Coulter came to your home at every meal to shout insults and make it impossible for you to have a normal conversation, would you be justified in showing her the door? Is that "censorship"?
posted on 03.09.2007 12:33 PM8
Will San Francisco fall into the ocean BEFORE or AFTER it is deluged by the rising ocean levels caused by global warming?
Just asking.
posted on 03.09.2007 2:28 PM9
I am a big fan of Dr. Dalrymple's writing. If you want to read a book about what multiculturalism will do to a country, read "Life at the Bottom: The worldview that makes the Underclass". It is an absolutely frightening picture of contemporary England from the point of view of a prison physician: i.e. Dalrymple.
It's interesting that Dalrymple would be so candid about the lack of scientific self-understanding; he is an avowed atheist.
posted on 03.09.2007 8:42 PM10
If Ann Coulter came to your home at every meal to shout insults and make it impossible for you to have a normal conversation, would you be justified in showing her the door? Is that "censorship"?
No it wouldn't be censorship. Does that mean that now that Larry is gone Joe is going to feed us? If so please bring it on!
posted on 03.09.2007 10:11 PM11
Joe, this is draft one of the software, and it sometimes lists a site as banned when it really isn't. I just checked your site again, and it is available now.
posted on 03.25.2007 9:26 PM