College Virgins, Lasusa Links, Peggy Coquet on Big Brother, Dan Grobstein File
John Hanzel, my friend and classmate at MIT, keeps an eye out for MIT items. Here's one:
- MAGAZINE | March 30, 2008
Students of Virginity
By RANDALL PATTERSON
In the Ivy League, abstinence is a) philosophical, b) research-based, c) an outgrowth of feminism, d) sexy and fun, e) all of the above.
Tom Lasusa surfs the web so you don't have to: Anti-Emo Riots Break Out Across Mexico. . . How to survive in NYC on 99 cents. . . 25% of Anti-Obama Dems Think He's a Muslim. . . The ten most unreasonable parking fines of all time -UK edition. . . And Now For Something Completely Different -- a monkey on a motorcycle. . . If you Don't Have this Bed -- then the terrorists win. . . Texan faces charges over snake vodka. . . More Best Buy Bullshit- Store Manager calls cops on guy who notices price markup. . . Judge orders four to learn English or go to jail. . . Test Your Awareness…Martin Luther King: An Assassination Remembered...Rollin' With Bob Saget -- priceless...Vader's Hidden Talent...7 World's Weirdest Museums...Oldest human DNA recovered in fossilized poopies....Server Room In A Rain Shower...Male Rock Fans likely to Vote Republican...Study: Violent Games Relax Players....Burglar nabbed playing dead at funeral parlor...Cubicle Pranks -- They win..
It's been a while since I heard from Peggy Coquet; she checks in with this:
Centers Tap Into Personal Databases
By Robert O'Harrow Jr.
Intelligence centers run by states across the country have access to personal information about millions of Americans, including unlisted cellphone numbers, insurance claims, driver's license photographs and credit reports, according to a document obtained by The Washington Post.
Dan Grobstein File
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What a far cry that concept of God is from the Yahweh of the Hebrew Bible, smiting enemies hither and yon, making the sun stand still! Gone is the God of the Gospels with a redemptive message of forgiveness uttered from the mouth of a crucified man betrayed and abandoned by his closest followers. This God, the God of creationism, is a dorky obsessive compulsive preoccupied with minutiae - I expect this God to wash His hands every five minutes and to check the locks.
In short, creationists provide a trivializing notion of what is meant by God, an illustration that "God of the Gaps" is not only non-science but crummy theology.
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