Category: Ethics, Morality & Religion
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The Magnes Zionist, a blog by a pseudonymous orthodox Jewish professor is worth checking out, especially for his views on the recent Israeli invasion of Gaza. (link via Brian Leiter in Leiter Reports)
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Charles Fried has a somewhat bizarre NYT op-ed about the change in administrations and the Abu Ghraib atrocities. It's strange in that Fried starts off by conceding that high-level government officials authorized "torture and cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment" of detainees. That is, officials such as those named explicitly by Fried — Alberto Gonzalez, Dick…
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Denied respect and attention at home, George W. Bush recently made an unannounced visit to Iraq, hoping I am sure, to perform a victory lap of sorts in the last few remaining days in office. What greeted him there was not the confetti of a ticker tape parade, but two flying shoes aimed at his head…
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Conservative law professor/blogger Stephen Bainbridge thinks that appointing Doug Kmiec[1] as the U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See would be an insult to the Vatican and to the Pope. He follows up with a non-responsive response to the challenge that under his views, maybe Obama shouldn’t appoint an ambassador at all. What I find interesting…
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A church in Kansas is warning Americans to expect divine retribution for electing Barack Obama president.
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Does the following story strike anyone else as a case of hilariously unintended irony? Or am I forcing an "unnatural" analogy in my wicked mind? The gnomes, along with plastic flowers and other decorations such as teddy bears, have been called "inappropriate" and tacky by the Diocese of Bath and Wells. The church banned the…
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A couple of McCain supporters and GOP hacks can’t quite believe that Barack Obama can think his own thoughts and put them together in complete sentences. So they tried to launch an investigation using the expertise of an Oxford philosopher to "prove" that Obama’s autobiography, The Dreams from My Father was actually ghost written by…
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Now its not just McCain vs Obama but also the Christian God vs Allah / Buddha / Vishnu!
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Way back in the day (last October) I went off on Dozier Internet Law for its absurd website terms-of-use page, which made a number of laughable legal claims; these appear to me to basically be intellectual-property claims couched in contract context. I was particularly impressed by the You May Not Link Here Clause: "we ……
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A couple of weeks ago, an insert containing a DVD was in my Sunday newspaper : ‘Obsession’, with the O represented by a Crescent and Star, well recognizable as the symbol of Islam, and the N ending in the business end of a machine gun. The linkage implied was all too clear, despite miniscule disclaimers…
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