I recently finished reading Larry Witham's By Design: Science and the Search for God. It's an excellent book on the history and changing thought in the scientific community on the origins of life. For those looking for a defense of creation science or the latest in design theory, this isn't the book. What it is […]
The New York Times continues to insist that the Jayson Blair affair had nothing to do with the fact that Blair is black. In today's Times, columnist Bob Herbert has some wise, true words and some that are demonstrably false. Mr. Blair was a first-class head case who was given a golden opportunity and responded […]
You don't hear a lot about it here, because I make it a point not to bore my readers, but there was a good article in Sunday's New York Times on bloggers who focus mainly on themselves -- not politics, not music, not movies -- but good ol' #1. In my early blogging days I […]