Business travel took me out of my comfortable Virginia home this week and has pretty much kept me from posting much of anything, even in my
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Elf got a call earlier today from a very rude solicitor of donations. When you walk the phone number back online you get this interesting page about them:
Phone number report from 800Notes. Read more »

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i just started reading Stuart Kauffman’s book Reinventing the Sacred, in which he makes the case that God is an emergent phenomenon or at least a handy metaphor for a set of emergent phenomena. He seems to think this idea is exciting and new, and it might be in a scientific context.
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Forgive me for sounding so curmudgeonly about video games recently. Before we get started, let me say I’m enjoying playing GTA IV. After some initial nerves caused by the very realistic look the game has, I’m back on track running over pedestrians and side-swiping cop cars. I think the story is great and the dialog [...] Read more »

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Some Christians are challenging laws which prohibit tax-exempt churches from campaigning for a political candidate, saying it’s a violation of free speech laws. I haven’t checked to see if they also think it’s a violation of the separation of church and state, but if they did that would be a laff riot.
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