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Entries by David Horton from 04/2008

The shoulders of pygmies

| Posted 04.05.2008 | Healthy Living
Read More: James Hansen, Religion, Science, Isaac Newton, Evolution, Michael Behe, Charles Darwin, Healthy Living News

"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants" said Isaac Newton, imitating Robert Burton and Bernard Chartres. Not true of cou...

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Dangerous ideas

| Posted 04.08.2008 | Healthy Living
Read More: Religion, Atheism, Illinois, Healthy Living News

My lovely friend Pamela (of Frogblog fame) brought this item from Illinois to my attention. "Rep. Monique Davis (D-Chicago) interrupted atheist activ...

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Time of the preacher

| Posted 04.15.2008 | Politics
Read More: Denialism, Frank Luntz, Global Warming, Climate Change, Politics News

Frank Luntz wrote a memo for the Republican Party in the year of '02, preaching, among other things, that instead of using the term "global warming", ...

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What would Jesus do ... ?

| Posted 04.29.2008 | Politics
Read More: Katrina, Religion, Guns and God, Subprime, Politics News

When the subprime crisis began in America and people began to lose their homes, I was stunned by the reactions to any suggestion that the government m...

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