Creationism. Steve over at Triablogue notes that Richard Dawkins admits, “The big war is not between evolution and creationism, but between naturalism and supernaturalism.” By this admission, the issue is metaphysical rather than evidential (which means your decision to agree with creation or evolution depends on your philosophy rather than your evidence). Of course, scientific evidence is always and only interpreted within a metaphysical epistemological framework, whether you admit that fact or not.
International. Even though I think President Obama is a terrible President, I can give him credit when he does something right. I agree with Krauthammer’s analysis about his trip to India. Making India a member of the Security Council at the UN seems like good, common sense diplomacy for a number of reasons. The UN maybe a dysfunctional organization that resembles the bar scene in Star Wars, but it isn’t wholly without purpose.
TSA. The TSA is going to be made fun of until it stops touching people’s junk and using the nudie-scanners. As I mentioned last week, I suggested to my legislators that the TSA be dismantled. I got a very vague form letter in response from Rep. Jenkins that said nothing at all about the TSA, which doesn’t surprise me. (I voted for the other guy in the primary because Rep. Jenkins does not impress me.) The number of stories we are hearing about various molestations and abuses by “our” TSA officials is getting a little sickening. I am pretty sure something will change, but I hope we really dismantle the TSA and don’t just settle with limiting them slightly.
Guns. This is an excellent idea. Buy truck? Free gun to go in it!
Star Wars. I’ve been worrying about this myself, but now I have some help. If you too need some helping trying to decide how to talk to your kids about Star Wars, check out this PSA:
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Pork Spending. Given the outcome of the midterm election, it sounds like President Obama is giving up on his hope for Federally funded high speed trains. He’s set his site a little lower on new high speed buses. This I might go for.
Obama Replaces Costly High-Speed Rail Plan With High-Speed Bus Plan
Cheers.
