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Monthly Archives: March 2008

Obama’s Remarks on Pastor Wright, Race Relations in America

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Kindly lifted from Talking Points Memo, here is the transcript of a speech that Barack Obama gave in Pennsylvania today. Already pundits are descending upon his words and picking them apart for sound bytes. And to be sure, they will lift sentences and phrases to use out of context, boiling down one of the most [...]

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Stupid Hypothetical Series #1: The Jesus Conundrum

Friday, March 14, 2008

I’ve been listening to a lot of public radio lately, and was inspired to think of some ridiculous hypothetical situations – a la Radio Lab’s “would you throw a fat man at a train to save five other people” (that man would have to be ridiculously fat to stop a train, and therefore way too [...]

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