Monthly Archives: July 2006

A Captain Oates moment

Posted on July 31, 2006 by acb

As part of moving the web site over, I had to move all of the mail accounts associated with it, and owrk out how the new place does its spam filtering. So the Darwinwars.com domain was exposed, for about 12 … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Winding up Dan Dennett

Posted on July 31, 2006 by acb

At least, I think this is a windup. David Chalmers, incensed that Dan Dennett is saying in interviews that he has admitted defeat in their almost interminable argument about qualia, claims that Dennett, “in private email” now embraces Cartesian dualism. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Testing … zing!

Posted on July 30, 2006 by acb

In a last, or latest attempt to get rid of the 500 errors, and get comments flowing smoothly I have moved this blog to a new provider. It seems have gone smoothly, but please do report errors and omissions here … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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A thought about abortion

Posted on July 23, 2006 by acb

The girlfriend of someone I know very slightly recently had a late abortion for purely social reasons: in plain English because neither she nor the father are people anyone would trust as parents. Actually, I don’t know her, but I … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Give this man a job

Posted on July 22, 2006 by acb

It is a mystery to me why “Billmon” is not the best known American lefty blogger. I did actually urge the Guardian to recruit him at one stage. I can’t understand why newspapers don’t reprint stuff like this. UPDATE anyone … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Who can Jesus love?

Posted on July 21, 2006 by acb

Some people might think that there is not enough on this blog about Christians. Well, most of what interests me about Austen Ivereigh is libellous, though I may try to write the printable bits of the story. In the mean … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Apology to commentators

Posted on July 17, 2006 by acb

I just found and published around ten comments which had been posted during my Swedish trip and filed as junk by MT without any notification reaching me. I thought after the last upgrade that I would be informed of all … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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disconnected shorts

Posted on July 14, 2006 by acb

One of the canapé fashions in London this year is post-modern fish and chips: a few long thin potato fries arranged around a goujon of cod, and perhaps a couple of whitebait, in a cone of newspaper about the size … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Back (from the buzzards)

Posted on July 11, 2006 by acb

24 hours and normal service has already resumed: I am sitting at a desk in Essex, faffing, eating too much and resisting the thought of walks because, after all, where could I go that was new or interesting? But a … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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the sweets of fame

Posted on July 5, 2006 by acb

Three journalists interviewed me in the last week: the last one came completely at random, as the result of a vox pop on the weather in Uddevalla; someone from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Sydney tracked me down in a … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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