"According to researchers from Brigham Young University, low social interaction has the equivalent lifespan impact as smoking 15 cigarettes daily, or being a raging alcoholic. Cutting yourself off from others is worse, even, than inactivity. And twice as bad as obesity. So, you better start making friends." Read the rest.
"Failure to understand the basic (and, frankly, not even that difficult to understand) arguments of those who oppose redefining marriage is inexcusable bigotry....Refusing to learn the arguments of those who oppose changing the law must end. It simply must end. The ignorance and bigotry with which reporters have covered this topic is a scandal. It’s destroying civil political discourse, it’s embarrassing and can’t continue" (Mollie, in a must-read piece at Get Religion. She's reacting to a WaPo report in which the paper explains why their journalists are unapologetically biased in reporting efforts to redefine marriage.
Austin draws the "creative class," but this article says such a population doesn't tend to do much for a city. In fact, while the creative class benefits from urban gentrification, blue-collar and service personnel find they can no longer afford the urban-core cost of living and get pushed out to the suburbs. Where, I might add, there are fewer city services such as public transit.
"A Tel-Aviv woman parked her car legally in a spot that the city apparently intended to turn into a handicap spot. City workers painted the lines and wheelchair symbol around the woman’s car. Then, later, the city towed her for parking there without a handicap permit." The video she presented of the incident went viral. (story)
What to make of NYU philosopher and avowed atheist Thomas Nagel? He argues in his latest book, Mind and Cosmos, that, as the subtitle puts it "the Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False." He seems very much to be making the Intelligent Design argument, though he prefers to speak of the unfolding of a "cosmic predisposition." The NY Times reports on how forcefully he is loathed by the Darwinian magisterium. The article includes a link to a review of the book by Alvin Plantiga (a Christian and respected philosopher). It's worth your time to read.
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