Yearly Archives: 2003

Really good stuff

Posted on June 17, 2003 by acb

I have linked to The Whiskey Bar before. But I’ve just spent half an hour reading through some old posts, and I really think it’s the best political journalism anywhere on the web today. Continue reading →

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out of cache

Posted on June 16, 2003 by acb

I have been fiddling with the style sheet for most of today. The results should be hardly noticeable, but if all the stuff in the right-hand column now is too large, tell me, and I’ll try and work out why. Continue reading →

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A truly reformed Social Security

Posted on June 16, 2003 by acb

One of the secret joys of a religious affairs correspondent’s life is The English Churchman, a fortnightly which calls itself “A Protestant family newspaper”. It has no web site, which makes it difficult to give the full flavour, but, when … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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The naked truth

Posted on June 16, 2003 by acb

The Whiskey Bar has already done a marvellous collection of Administration quotes that show how much they were lying about WMDs. Now here is an account of what’s really happening which is nearly as funny as the films it’s based … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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bored now

Posted on June 15, 2003 by acb

.. as Willow would say; the business about gays in the church was really beginning to madden me. So I had a little rant about the whole nonsense, after warming up on a bunch of evangelical bigots on a mailing … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Genes and ends

Posted on June 15, 2003 by acb

David Sloan Wilson’s book Darwin’s Cathedral is a kind of follow-on to the book he wrote with Elliot Sober, defending group seleciton and the possibility of real altruism. DCis about religion considered as an agent of group selection. So he … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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the bewildered topologist

Posted on June 13, 2003 by acb

couldn’t understand why it wasn’t called ‘Lord of the doughnuts’. Continue reading →

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Pure Geek

Posted on June 12, 2003 by acb

This is of limited interest if you don’t make web sites, but wonderful news if you do: at least I’d rather use this service than load my computer with three more browsers and then have to buy a mac as … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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A young man makes his way

Posted on June 12, 2003 by acb

One of the books I have been meaning to read for at least 20 years is Eckermann’s Conversations with Goethe, which I bought when I was a factory worker in Sweden, at a book sale in <a href Continue reading →

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The descent of larynges

Posted on June 11, 2003 by acb

The descent of the human larynx is one of the things which makes speech possible. It’s also the reason we can choke on our food, so it must have had large advantages. It was therefore one of the crucial steps … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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