That may be the most idiotic definition of atheism - and there are some pretty idiotic ones about - that I have ever read. The grand accident you mention is not unexplainable, it is more completely explained with each passing day. The shifting that you invoke in the next sentence belongs to the religious types of motivation who have been shifting theology to accommodate evolving knowledge of the universe around us. The atheists of my acquaintance all have direction and More

I completely disagree, Allison. Violation of anyone's right to privacy is never justified and believe it or not, YOU do not have an intrinsic and extrinsic motivation right to know how other people spend their money. As I have responded to your fellow Fascist, McShane, audits can be performed on campaigns which provide more than adequate protection from abuses without infringing on our basic freedoms. You Fascists clearly do not fear State coercion and the suppression of More

Of her daughter Rosie's self-determination to overcome her learning difficulties in children with reading, Ms. Waldman writes: She did it herself, without us, and it is no exaggeration to say that we were and remain stunned with pride. She did not do it without you. She may have not had the type of heavy-handed guidance that Ms. Chua provides her children, but Rosie's tenacity like other traits in all children were directly influenced by her parents' (and siblings' and More

You should step inside one of your Nirvana classes here for a year and see how to get over your ex boyfriend long you last. I have 176 adolescents cross paths with me each day. Any given day 10% are having boyfriend/girlfriend angst/issues, 25-50% are hassling with their parents (sometimes with themselves) and then they get to sit through 2 hours of abstract mathematics with me (sometimes I have my own issues). It's not an assembly line and they're not widgets or financial More

Stephen, This is a good and, often overlooked, point. I had a case in grad school that centered on a situation where a new-to-the-area bank hr executive was faced with trying to build up his bank's business with the Chinese community. His rival was an executive of Asian-descent . Nearly everyone in the class assumed that the Asian community preferred the executive of Asian-descent, with the exception of a few of us. The nut of the case was that the community wanted the More

Thank you for your clear explanation of the left's disingenuous talking points against Mr. Perry. Clearly the Obama camp is very worried about Mr. Perry and so they should be. If the Republicans run a Perry-Rubio ticket in 2012, I will crawl over broken glass in the snow uphill both ways to vote for them. I will also donate my entire disposable income tax calculator 2012 until further notice to their campaign. I cannot bear to see the destruction that central control and More

Obviously unit prices are a factor in determining total healthcare costs, but so is the demand for those services by beneficiaries. As long as Uncle Sugar happily pays the bill without questioning either the unit price (actually the unit price is DETERMINED by Uncle Sugar) or the volume of services provided (churning DOES exist in health care, too) the total cost of health care is bound to climb. The only method for delivering unrationed health care that actually seems More

The first thing that the next GOP Congress should do is to completely phase out the current federal income tax calculator income tax code, and replace it with a simple and straight-forward FLAT TAX, that EVERYBODY in this country all pays a fixed percentage on gross income without any deductions, credits, and allowances. If every citizen has the right to vote, every citizen shall also has the obiligation to share the cost of maintaining this democracy by paying federal More

The price increase didn't really bother me but this move really makes me question whether to remain a customer. Having both your streaming and DVD lists integrated was a big benefit. Having them separate is going to be an inconvenience. Why do they want to inconvenience their types of customers? I used to be very impressed with how well Netflix treated their customers (for instance their webpage interface is much easier to use than say Hulu.) But with this boneheaded move More

The real conflict here Dave is with their personal priorities not with their partisan priorities. Every politician is convinced that if he brings home enough bacon, he will buy the votes necessary to get re-elected. If there were a real cap on government spending at 18% types of conflict GDP, then the conflict becomes one between all of the individual members fighting for the available bacon (a kind of Hobbesian war of all against all). As it is, the members agree to approve More