Happy 30th Anniversary to Tor Books.

Josh Roshenau, with further thoughts on why gadfly Ben Stiller Sam Harris is turning out to be a real crank.

Fowler. I still have the copy my dad gave me when I started high school. Nice to see it’s still a source of inspiration.

Siris: Dembski’s disciples are now turning their guns on the Thomists. Needless to say, he’s not impressed. You don’t need to presuppose CSI, or any sort of design theory, to have final causes in the Thomistic sense; if the point of ID or CSI is to give you final causes in this sense, they are… Continue reading

File under “No Kidding, really?” Dept. The official projections for health-care reform, which show it greatly reducing the number of uninsured and also reducing the budget deficit, are simply not credible. There are three basic issues. The cost and revenue projections rely on unrealistic assumptions and accounting tricks. If you make some adjustments for these,… Continue reading