Incandescence

Excalibur - It isn't clear to me that Proposition 8 is a defense of religious privacy. "Marriage," whatever else it may be, is a contractual partnership recognized by the federal ...

I didn't say it wasn't valid. I trust it as far as I can see it, but it's certainly not conclusive of an originary ontogenetic source. There are plenty of ...

lukas, You still haven't demonstrated any causality. There is an extreme similarity--so what? Sureal makes the point that we all descended from the same source with different genetic mutations (the ...

I actually still stand by the claim I made in 2005 (there is no evidence conclusively linking man to chimp--there simply isn't. Saying, "we share 99% of our genes with ...

I think a critique of free speech can be launched in the following sense: as Gal's post brought to the fore, the implicit supposition that all of you posturing against ...

Yeah, you learn how to do better on the test the next time around. This has not been demonstrated to be an actual problem. Is there an issue with "teaching ...

I think if you're in a debate where someone uses Wikipedia as a source, it's your job to point out why that particular Wiki-article is not correct or appropriate for ...

I remember reading that study in Mathematics Magazine that concluded that Wikipedia is statistically just as reliable as the Oxford English Dictionary... There's a comment in that Wiki article: In ...

I have a problem with "coexisting" in the form propagated in OE's comment here: Ahh see this is the kind of talking we are trying to avoid in the discussion. ...

Total mastery of a language would be impossible; my English is not Snoink's English is not Nate's English is not Jack's English is not... The point, however is not to ...

4/10. You lost points for the Panic song. 1. "Rule" - Supreme Beings of Leisure 2. "Tu Cigarette Après L'amour" - Charles Dumont 3. "Numero Deux" - The Dining Rooms ...

Lacan.

Well, it's only fair I also show the image:

There are a lot of comments here that reflect, in diminished form, the anger and ideas of the student riots in Paris in May 1968--the most salient slogan of which ...

Why does the universe need a "beginning" anyway?