Things to Note This Sunday Morning...
Substantial numbers of Econ 1 students who seem to be having genuine problems with figuring out expected values. This is disturbing…
Substantial numbers of Paultards trying to leave comments about how Obama and me are the real race-baiters here--not Ron Paul and his newsletters. Makes me really wish that would-be commenters had to pony up $5 for each comment into a fund I could then distribute to the value-added commenters--hell, I'd be happy to sweeten the pot with $1000/year of my own moneup y…
Someday--maybe 5, maybe 10, maybe 20, maybe 50 years from now--some Pope is going to say: "The fact that God gave us concealed ovulation means that birth control is completely fine. If God had not wanted humans to make love whether or not such lovemaking is 'open to conception', She would have set things up so that human females went into estrus and human males were only aroused by females in estrus, the way it works with so many of our other mammal cousins. Paul VI and his successors John Paul I and II and Benedict XVI were narrow-minded misogynists who made serious theological errors." That day is coming sure as the sun rises in the east every morning. When that day comes, what is Ross Douthat going to do? Say "my bad--I've been talking bullshit for the past 15, or 20, or 30, or 60 years" or say "Benedict the Narrow-Minded was the last true pope"?
