From the Onion of course: TIBETAN TEEN GETTING INTO WESTERN PHILOSOPHY LHASA, TIBET-Deng Hsu, 14, said Monday that he is “totally getting into Western philosophy.” “I’ve been reading a lot of Kant, Descartes, and Hegel, and it’s blowing my mind,” Hsu said. “It’s so exotic and exciting, not like all that Buddhist ‘being is desire…

Alleged Catholic Garry Wills says: “Can a people that believes more fervently in the Virgin Birth than in evolution still be called an Enlightened nation?” I didn’t realize one was obliged to believe in evolution “fervently.” Isn’t it enough just to accept it as the best science going? Surely mere assent will do. The Virgin…

Managed not to lose all my sidebar links this time. The white was getting a little drab I thought.

From Jesse Walker at Reason’s Hit and Run blog: The media’s line is that Bush’s reelection turned on the culture war. I don’t know whether that’s true, but it’s plausible; conservative Christians turned out in Ohio to vote against gay marriage, and that may have made the difference between a national victory for Bush and…

The pollsters are telling us that a significant number of voters (~22%) cited “moral values” as their preeminent concern, more than any other issue. “Moral values” here means “hot-button” issues like gay marriage and abortion. I’m not going to complain about people voting on these issues; I certainly think they are legitimate matters of public…

The New Pantagruel has posted its issue for Fall 2004. Looks like another batch of quality articles to sink your teeth into. They’ve also published a letter from yours truly. See here and scroll down to “On Not Voting.”

I would say that this challenge from Tom at Disputations applies to all Christians, indeed all people of good will. Politicians, however necessary their services may be, aren’t going to fix the world for us.

Marcus at A Green Conservatism makes a valiant attempt to vote for Ralph Nader.

Despite all the dire predictions of voter fraud, voter intimidation, malfunctioning machines and a replay of Florida (or worse) all over again, the election seems to have gone off relatively smoothly and resulted in a clear, if not terribly substantial, victory for the President. It reminds me of the hysterical cries of impending Apocalypse on…

…but it looks like my guy David Cobb is not going to pull it off. Oh well, there’s always 2008!