Not Matt Drudge's finest hour

http://www.samizdata.net/blog/archives/2008/02/not_matt_drudge.html

Matt Drudge expresses no regret for Prince Harry report

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/29/wdrudge229.xml

William F. Buckley on Marijuana

http://www.nationalreview.com/buckley/buckley200406291207.asp

Blue Books

I've been told that the dept. does not supply students with Blue Books. Sorry about that. They cost 25 cents and can be purchased from the book store. Please purchase two blue books for your final, and please remember to bring them Tuesday, March 18th at 8:00am. (Same classroom)

posted by student request

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikileaks
http://wikileaks.be/wiki/Wikileaks

Rank Order - Current account balance

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2187rank.html

Can you find the US? Scroll down. Way, way down.

CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

http://reason.tv/video/show/302.html

more Pinker (repost)

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/13/magazine/13Psychology-t.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5124&en=34606567689dd23a&ex=1357966800&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink&adxnnlx=1201777568-yFz5PxtwnOlFgycOf7Lm8A

Mandatory Reading

http://www.reason.com/news/show/28537.html

Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/068482471X/o/

This is a wonderful book. If you want to read it, talk to me about extra credit...

Evolution and Ethics

http://library.thinkquest.org/C004367/ph2.shtml

Wikipedia defies 180,000 demands to remove images of the Prophet

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/feb/17/wikipedia.islam?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews

Big problem for firefighters

http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5guYjbwTEtcEWkL6Bqc8gHclZmzgg

Firefighters have demanded a change in guidelines for helping obese people after being called to a house four times in one week to lift a 41-stone man.

On one occasion, 10 firefighters had to move Robert Marsden two feet across his bed at his home in Grangemouth, Stirlingshire.

Fire brigade leaders have complained their crews should not be dealing with such matters when they could be called out to an emergency. A new strategy for tackling the problem in the area is being discussed by various agencies.

Row As Firemen Are Called Out To Lift 45-Stone Man

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/2008/02/22/row-as-firemen-are-called-out-to-lift-45-stone-man-86908-20327259/

commercial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZ-fyst4-7w

biologist

We're having a guest lecturer come in and speak to us on Feb. 25th, Monday. Please do not miss class that day.

He has a Ph.D. in biology from NYU and is a buddy of mine. He'll be educating us on evolution. Have questions?? Ask!

Evolution Wins as Creationists (Accidentally) Switch Sides in Florida

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/02/evolution-wins.html


"Until now, Florida's schools weren't required to teach evolution. The old curriculum guidelines didn't even mention it by name."

Errors Plague Letters From APS Students

http://www.koat.com/news/15360528/detail.html?rss=alb&psp=news

family values: should this matter?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/21/us/politics/21mccain.html?_r=2&hp&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

per class discussion

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=4313028&page=1

http://www.amazon.com/Conspiracy-Ignorance-Failure-American-Schools/dp/0060194588

personal v. professional lives

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1074045

as discussed in class

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/77304/#more

as discussed in class

http://knowmore.org/wiki/index.php?title=American_Apparel,_LLC

http://youtube.com/watch?v=wS7CZIJVxFY

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005394/

http://www.code46movie.net/

State bill would shield anti-abortion doctors

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/s_549608.html

diet soda

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/05/health/nutrition/05symp.html?em&ex=1203397200&en=2d2c02b311f9cf46&ei=5087%0A

Think about this in relation to our discussion about a company being obligated to pull a product if...

Dumb and Dumber: Are Americans Hostile to Knowledge?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/14/books/14dumb.html?em&ex=1203310800&en=ed986aa2c486c13d&ei=5087%0A#

Mandatory reading (esp. for Kurt)

http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i35/35b00701.htm

Danish Muslim Party says Denmark will be Muslim country soon

http://sioeengland.wordpress.com/2008/01/22/danish-muslim-party-says-denmark-will-be-muslim-country-soon/

17 Danish Papers Reprint Prophet Cartoon

http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?c=Article_C&cid=1201957871721&pagename=Zone-English-News/NWELayout

note the source.

note also:

"Their plans to kill Kurt Westergaard…are not just an attack on Westergaard but an attack on our democratic culture," Politiken, the centre-left newspaper of reference, said in an editorial.

(center-left)

Riots in Denmark

http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/02/riots-in-denmark-muslim-youths-go-on.html

Gambler sues betting shop for $4m losses

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/02/14/gambler.sue/index.html

China: Links to Darfur are 'nonsense'

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/02/14/oly.spielberg.ap/index.html

Larry Craig

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig

we'll be discussing this 3/15 (this Friday)

Peer-Reviewing the Bible

http://www.slate.com/id/2184384/entry/0/?from=rss

Newspapers reprint Prophet Mohammed cartoon

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/02/13/denmark.cartoon/index.html

Bill Maher

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-4QIvygFmc

Venezuela Halts Oil Sales to Exxon Mobil

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080212/venezuela_us_oil.html?.v=2

More Hitchens

http://www.slate.com/id/2184186/nav/tap3/

Saudi Arabia bans all things red ahead of Valentine's Day

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/02/12/saudi.valentine/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

World of Warcraft

Here's a wrinkle I don't think we'd planned on. I just dinged 60 on the server that my husband has been playing on since he started playing. Long story short, my first character was on a different server so that I could play with a female friend of mine. I'd made an alt type character on my husband's server but didn't play her much. When I finally got fed up with the server my main was on (the only decent person there was my friend as far as I could find) I moved over to Stonemaul permanently. I ditched my half-assed attempt at an undead mage, rolled up my druid and was good to go. Well, now months later I'm finally level 60 and my husband and I are both in the same guild. I'll be starting my raids with them this week actually.
The problem? We have two small children who need to eat dinner and raids start at 5pm. Ack! How are we going to make dinner?! There are no problems with the kids running around playing and such while we raid. They're already used to that, they play in the computer room and we can get them things that they need (you know, cups of juice, snacks, what have you) when we have breaks. Before it was easy because if I was running an instance and in the middle of combat my husband might be in a a space between pulls where he could safely go afk for 30 seconds you know. But now we'll be on the same schedule essentially. We both play support classes too (he's a holy priest, I'm a resto druid) so the guild ideally would want us to both be in a forty man raid. It's not like we can easily switch off any raid nights other than say, ZG and AQ20 runs.
It's more of a logistics problem than a real stressor. It's just that it hadn't really occured to me when I joined his guild that eventually we'd both be raiding on the same nights and thus on the same schedule game-wise. For tonight, since dinner is already thawed out, I'm just planning on eating with the kids at 4pm (about two hours earlier than our normal dinnertime) and letting them snack when they get hungry later one. We'll make a plate for my husband (who doesn't usually get home from work until just about invite time) to heat up and that will take care of tonight. But what about the rest of the week? The rest of the time I'm raiding. I suspect that it will be me who shows up to fewer raids, because I'm the mama after all and that's who the kids often want. Ack, who'd of thunk that the social problems of parenthood in America would follow me into Azeroth :o

Turn Out the Red Light?

http://www.newsweek.com/id/109373?gt1=10856

Dane, Tunisians arrested in cartoonist murder plot

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/12/AR2008021200198.html

How Americans Spend Their Money

http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2008/02/10/opinion/10op.graphic.ready.html

Nietzsche

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nietzsche

read this for class, please

Obama on religion

http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid353515028?bctid=416343938

In Bronx School, Culture Shock, Then Revival

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/08/nyregion/08principal.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

What do you think of this?

http://www.cair.com/audio/savage_102907.asp

WARNING: If you are easily offended do NOT listen to this.

How would you deal with this?

The Persuaders

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/persuaders/

Please try to watch this by Feb. 22.

As per our discussion

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/02/08/iraq.women/index.html

the fault is...?

evil capitalism?

http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSN0632795720080207

images

http://valleywag.com/353698/107000-demand-wikipedia-remove-this-image-of-muhammed

Hitchens on Withdrawal from Iraq

http://fora.tv/2007/08/23/Christopher_Hitchens_on_Withdrawal_from_Iraq

Belief in Belief: HITCHENS

http://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php?section=library&page=hitchens_28_1

sharia law for British Muslims "unavoidable"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2254074,00.html

Think about this in the context of our discussion on Rawls...

Part II, Rawls and healthcare

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/05/medicine_as_sca.html

as per class discussion (Rawls)

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/05/rand_health_ins_1.html

professional portfolios

http://midsolutions.org/portfolios/portfolio_index.htm

http://k6educators.about.com/library/howto/htportf.htm

...as per our discussion in class...

on the issues

http://www.ontheissues.org/John_McCain.htm

http://www.ontheissues.org/Hillary_Clinton.htm

http://www.ontheissues.org/Barack_Obama.htm

Review: Proust was a Neuroscientist

http://www.jsmf.org/badneuro/wheat.htm#bn59

Druggists refuse to give out pill

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2004-11-08-druggists-pill_x.htm

Female Muslim medics 'disobey hygiene rules'

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/03/nislam403.xml

Mississippi Legislature Introduces Bill that Would Ban Restaurants from Serving the Obese

http://www.clevelandleader.com/node/4524

Motivated by a Tax, Irish Spurn Plastic Bags

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/02/world/europe/02bags.html?_r=1&pagewanted=2&hp&oref=slogin

Muslim leader fears conflict of rights in new B.C. taxi policy

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2008/02/01/bc-taxi-discrimation.html?ref=rss