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POPSChristianity Today on torture David Gushee for the evangelical Christian magazine Christianity Today on five theological grounds for the unequivocal and universal condemnation of torture by Christians, and why, from a Christian perspective, no exceptional circumstances can ever justify the use of torture. From February 2006.
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POPSHands Off Mohammed!!! Fear seems to have censored the publishing of a book about Mohammed. As the author of the piece points out: "It is condescending to treat Muslims like excitable children who cannot cope with the probing, mocking treatment we hand out to Christianity, Judaism and Buddhism. It is perfectly consistent to protect Muslims from bigotry while challenging the bigotries and absurdities within their holy texts." Doesn't seem like too much to ask.
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POPSBest Defense is Always Offense This outraged Russia, which believes that it has the right to point missiles at its neighbors, but its neighbors have no right to defend themselves against those missiles.
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POPSWhat Olympics leave behind: Police State 2.0 US companies, formerly forbidden from selling police tech to China, equipped 660 Chinese cities with spycam networks, under the guise of Olympics security. They'll find their real use after the Games move on.
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POPSStrange Rites From an outside perspective, this truly is a bizarre ritual that is reminiscent of old B-movies of virgins being thrown into volcanoes to appease the gods. I would bet that most believers don't share this viewpoint.
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POPS"My Guantanamo Diary" Seven years, hundreds of thousands dead, millions displaced from their country, several trillion dollars spent (including estimates of future costs), and all we've really got to show for it is ... (drum-roll) ... a sentence of 5.5 years for Osama's driver. Fracking amazing.
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POPSWhy I Love Clipmarks So, i didn't write this, I read it. It was posted by Clipmarks user onlinedesign in the "Why I Use Clipmarks" section of her profile. You can click the source link to visit her page. I wanted to clip this because it really moved me. It is exactly what i hope Clipmarks can provide for people. Knowing that we have accomplished this for some people gives me great pride and satisfaction. I could never adequately convey how impressed, inspired and grateful i am for the collective contributions of the people who share the content, thoughts, opinion, passion and perspective that gets mixed together here on clipmarks.com. I think it's truly remarkable.
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POPSUS Weighs Stepped-Up Military Forays Into Pakistan Why don't we just hand over all the decisions to the Generals and Admirals and get it over with? We might as well save money on elections an other such futile circuses. Just call it The Disunuted States of the Pentagon. just cut out "the people" As middlemen and go directly to the profiteering Korporations and ask them what they need to bring in more obscene $$$$$$. Why fuck around voting?
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POPSThe Wrecking Crew: Why bad government is not an accident "You don’t want talented folks in government, because then government will work, it will be effective. And if government is effective, then people will start to expect it to solve their problems ... and who knows what comes after that ...? It’s all downhill from there, from his perspective. And the funny thing was—then you start... researching the history of conservatism—people say things like this all the time, that we don’t want the best and the brightest in government"
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POPSThe cognitive neuroscience of magic Magic combines multiple principles of attention, awareness, trust and perception to both overtly and covertly misdirect the audience. Whether they are used for performance art or as a means to illicitly separate victims from their money and valuables, the accomplished performer uses robust and intuitive manipulative devices that are of great interest to neuroscientists pursuing the neural underpinnings of cognition, memory, sensation, social attachment, causal inference and awareness.
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POPSChart o' the Day: Windfall Profits Gone Wild! Do you think our beloved mainstream media will report this news? Carpe Diem http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2008/08/putting-exxons-income-taxes-in.html Exxon Mobil Corporation Announces Estimated Second Quarter 2008 Results http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/exxonmobil/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&ndmConfigId=1001106&newsId=20080731005690&newsLang=en
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POPSStanford characteristics of prosepective students (show in writing)
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POPS10 Traits for Lifelong Fulfillment 9. Full engagement Though you may play several different roles during the day, you only do one thing at a time. You are present to your current experience. 10. Long term perspective You are committed to a grand vision and purpose for your life. You are not swayed by short term urgencies. While many others are thinking only days and weeks ahead, you are looking years and decades forward.
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POPSThe Escapist 161 on indie games I've noticed that indie games are making a lot of signals on the blogs lately. I haven't found much time to play them, prolly cos' I'm reading during my free time. ;) The Escapist's issue this week on indies actually has a couple of articles from the perspective of people making indie games, it's got a fair bit of business insight. Some of the criticisms of the market's failure to provide free savannah for any and every roaming indie creation reminds me of the criticisms aimed at Scott McCloud's Reinventing Comics. The big businesses have a way of corralling user eyeballs to their own products, and despite the wilderness of the internet it's not a fair ecosystem.
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