tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post6380368962121796666..comments2024-03-28T12:10:26.197-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Progressing Toward the OriginGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-131976199334036172010-11-12T16:07:08.254-08:002010-11-12T16:07:08.254-08:00Gay sperm donor fights lesbian mother over access ...Gay sperm donor fights lesbian mother over access to children? Pish-posh... how old hat, sedate... they weren't even related, we've had <i>way</i> more proregress since that was on the cutting edge, now <i>this</i> is putting things into a mixed up swirling DNA blender: <br /><br /><a href="http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/nov/10110901.html" rel="nofollow">"Woman Gives Birth to Homosexual Son's Baby"</a><br /><br />Now <i>that's</i> progress a proregressive can believe in, right?!<br /><br />(o.m.g.)Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-69560526257011692792010-11-12T01:30:42.234-08:002010-11-12T01:30:42.234-08:00Gagdad Bob said...
Confirmed: Beer was the cause...Gagdad Bob said... <br /><br />Confirmed: Beer was the cause of civilization.<br /><br />And vice versa. Or was that verse viceuh?USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-17292600241992442392010-11-11T15:36:29.564-08:002010-11-11T15:36:29.564-08:00:D
I know, right? The hazard pay is unreal. His f...:D<br /><br />I know, right? The hazard pay is unreal. His first year, I think he worked for just a few months, and was already making more money than a lot of lawyers I know. He used it to travel Europe with his sister.<br /><br />I don't know what he's doing for work now, but then again he may just not have to worry about it for a while.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-30218123377236753042010-11-11T15:29:18.441-08:002010-11-11T15:29:18.441-08:00Julie said... "underwater welder..."
...Julie said... "underwater welder..."<br /><br /><br />THAT's hardcore!Annahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16900344453710081874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-65009935284309399402010-11-10T22:23:29.324-08:002010-11-10T22:23:29.324-08:00Yeah Maher, nice try. I don't think so. The ...Yeah Maher, nice try. I don't think so. The only counterforce in this universe is human greed. Turn your erudite attention to that, space cadet.<br /><br />The hole is bored by you. And I don't mean that in a nice way.black holehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07366633817665791528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-17773305181683232242010-11-10T13:58:31.979-08:002010-11-10T13:58:31.979-08:00Bob, good post. Your discussion about entropy was...Bob, good post. Your discussion about entropy was interesting.<br /><br />We could imagine entropy counterbalance by a slighly stronger unknown and unamed Force.<br /><br />This Force would then slowly and inexorably cause the universe to become ever more complex and would concentrate energy in the form of consciousness.<br /><br />Entropy and Consciousness would compete for influence with Complexity overweening and eventually dominating entropy in this universe. <br /><br />Such a Force would make progress automatic, however progress would be very slow, erratic, and subject to meanderings and setbacks. However, the more consious and willed progress is, i.e. less automatic, the more efficient and speedy it would become.<br /><br />In the universe with this counterentropic Force of Consciousness, eventual victory is already in the cards, with the rate at which it will be achieved still the wild card in the deck.Open Trenchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06354412002318534131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-82932254719172476972010-11-10T13:20:04.616-08:002010-11-10T13:20:04.616-08:00Mikal - wow. I hadn't heard of that guy.
I b...Mikal - wow. I hadn't heard of that guy. <br /><br />I bet he writes like he speaks - you can just see the portentous pauses and smug, glowering expression after every sentence (spaced out, for that extra sense of importance, as though every line were the resounding CLANG of a death knell). It's easy to picture him walking around the stage with his head down, giving a heavy sigh with each pause, holding the microphone just so as to catch the nuanced breath.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-46506900628344289642010-11-10T13:08:58.879-08:002010-11-10T13:08:58.879-08:00Good question. If you read the comments at the ori...Good question. If you read the comments at the original article, she's roundly excoriated by virtually everyone, mostly for that reason.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-70312676411603508472010-11-10T13:08:15.261-08:002010-11-10T13:08:15.261-08:00Julie,
I see your Lara Pawson and raise you a Tim...Julie,<br /><br />I see your Lara Pawson and raise you a <a href="http://isteve.blogspot.com/2010/11/uncle-tim.html" rel="nofollow">Tim Wise</a>.Skorpionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07637971946739703816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-12189244320819791682010-11-10T13:03:47.236-08:002010-11-10T13:03:47.236-08:00Julie,
RE the Shrinkwrapped article, Ace makes th...Julie,<br /><br />RE the Shrinkwrapped article, Ace makes this point:<br /><br />"Wait, where is the status and privilege? This is less a substantive point than one about writing a coherent essay -- she begins by saying she's abandoning marriage due to the status and privilege afforded to the married, then begins whining about how awful marriage is in terms of personal costs to herself.<br /><br />So which is it? Is she being granted too many privileges or being denied too many opportunities?"Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10589423819039764711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-39779431028631647902010-11-10T12:52:38.072-08:002010-11-10T12:52:38.072-08:00Van,
From the article..
"The advert read: “G...Van,<br />From the article..<br /><br />"The advert read: “Gay guy wants to be a Dad. White, handsome, solvent 30s, professional, in happy relationship, non-scene, has everything but kids."<br /><br />Everything but wife as well.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10589423819039764711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-15146322052736559252010-11-10T12:28:26.248-08:002010-11-10T12:28:26.248-08:00It really has to do with the spontaneous order des...It really has to do with the spontaneous order described by Hayek, which embodies an inconceivable amount of embodied knowledge, in contrast to the top-down intellectual knowledge of elites like Obama who wouldn't know how to run a lemonade stand.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-12130629924589884102010-11-10T12:18:29.027-08:002010-11-10T12:18:29.027-08:00"Bolton points out the obvious psychospiritua..."Bolton points out the obvious psychospiritual disaster of blending male and female, and now adult and child, resulting in a potential race of neutered obamalescents. The next illogical step down this slithery sleep into the nihilistic effacement of archetypal differences is "homosexual marriage." (In other words, the whole point of marriage is to preserve and sacralize the differences in a dynamic union, not to efface them.)"<br /><br />Speaking of which, to have some real proregressive fun, just pop the ol' DNA in the queasyinart and let the good times roll! <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/8118026/Gay-sperm-donor-fights-lesbian-mother-over-access-to-children.html" rel="nofollow">Gay sperm donor fights lesbian mother over access to children</a>Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-91220458188359073042010-11-10T12:15:17.616-08:002010-11-10T12:15:17.616-08:00"Indeed, this is something that all classical..."Indeed, this is something that all classical liberals (i.e., conservatives) realize. The leftist wants radical change, "which is more deeply opposed to real historical change than is institutionalized permanence, since the permanent at least contains the potentiality of change. Universal change, on the other hand, has no potentialities at all, since everything in it is actualized already, so that a final cessation is the only new frontier it could cross." <br /><br />One of the great ironies, has got to be that the greatest progress is made by those with the deepest roots... and that the rolling stone goes nowhere. Fast.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-51276436605620593982010-11-10T11:50:22.263-08:002010-11-10T11:50:22.263-08:00Well, "Mulva" does rhyme with "vulv...Well, "Mulva" does rhyme with "vulva," which is a plus for girls. <br /><br />"Joyce" rhymes with "moist," also not bad.black holehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07366633817665791528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-14873463682064042702010-11-10T11:19:06.505-08:002010-11-10T11:19:06.505-08:00Confirmed: Beer was the cause of civilization.Confirmed: <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/the-feed/252859/there-nothing-it-cant-do-archaeologists-claim-beer-led-rise-civilization" rel="nofollow">Beer</a> was the cause of civilization.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-61980618778223988572010-11-10T11:16:10.723-08:002010-11-10T11:16:10.723-08:00The foolish idea of "new = good" is like...<i>The foolish idea of "new = good" is like a virus that, in the long run, will eventually eliminate wisdom and Truth,</i><br /><br />And in other news, there's <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/nov/10/the-tyranny-of-marriage" rel="nofollow">this</a> bit of abject stupidity (via <a href="http://shrinkwrapped.blogs.com/blog/2010/11/when-narcissism-and-ideology-are-married.html" rel="nofollow">Shrinkwrapped</a>):<br /><br />"I want to divorce the man I love and he wants to divorce me. We do not wish to separate – simply to end our seven-year marriage. Like Tom Freeman and Katherine Doyle, who yesterday were denied their request for a civil partnership at a London register office, we would prefer "to secure official status for our relationship in a way that supports the call for complete equality and is free of the negative, sexist connotations of marriage". We are both fed up with being part of the hetero-husband-and-wife brigade that is accorded so much status and privilege."juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-84011515132453434162010-11-10T11:01:45.441-08:002010-11-10T11:01:45.441-08:00GE - is that the new Giant Jesus in Poland? It loo...GE - is that the new Giant Jesus in Poland? It looks like his head is floating.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-84780154996068115722010-11-10T10:59:48.762-08:002010-11-10T10:59:48.762-08:00I wonder what percentage of neutrally-named kids h...I wonder what percentage of neutrally-named kids have <a href="http://www.daytondailynews.com/lifestyle/are-you-a-wimpy-parent-check-for-these-7-signs-996663.html?cxntlid=cmg_cntnt_rss" rel="nofollow">wimpy parents</a>? 85 or 95?juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-89943865893976371702010-11-10T10:57:18.377-08:002010-11-10T10:57:18.377-08:00Mulva?
Always makes me think of Deloris.Mulva?<br /><br />Always makes me think of Deloris.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10589423819039764711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-90628944582328413742010-11-10T10:52:19.929-08:002010-11-10T10:52:19.929-08:00To me, anything that started off Biblical pretty m...To me, anything that started off Biblical pretty much doesn't come across as neutral. Unless the parents have switched the genders (though I'd be pretty surprised by a girl named "Jacob" or a boy named "Ruth,").<br /><br />Muldred - sounds a little too close to "Mulva."juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-57007996513565601382010-11-10T10:48:18.306-08:002010-11-10T10:48:18.306-08:00Stern asked Zappa for a good girl's name:
Bin...Stern asked Zappa for a good girl's name: <br />Bingo: "Muldred"<br /><br />or wv<br />cindugehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02015936407999495181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-35520497473979850002010-11-10T10:46:24.662-08:002010-11-10T10:46:24.662-08:00'Halcyon' would be a good name
not so muc...'Halcyon' would be a good name<br /><br />not so much Tarneesha<br />or Tremluth Givvel or<br />Vacolian<br /><br />WV trumps with<br />Agotheagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02015936407999495181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-70523679032083471852010-11-10T10:39:09.596-08:002010-11-10T10:39:09.596-08:00If parents are going for "Joshua" it'...If parents are going for "Joshua" it's not doing the gender-neutral thing with me...since I only think of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Derek" rel="nofollow">this one</a> and never knew anybody else with the name. By "this one" I mean "the person as portrayed in the movie".<br />I always thought this was good casting, even as a boy and pretty religious-neutral.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10589423819039764711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-90837242485883135192010-11-10T10:38:15.881-08:002010-11-10T10:38:15.881-08:00AP News Flash, 2020.
"Gavin Newsom, long-tim...AP News Flash, 2020.<br /><br />"Gavin Newsom, long-time governor of California, has ordered the mass evacuation of Los Angeles county due to sustained temperatures of over 135 degrees Fahrenheit."<br /><br />"Also in the news: property owners in Southern California seek government compentation for property lost due to inundation by rising ocean levels. They blame federal policy for the disaster. At the same time, the state is trying to increase property taxes for those who now have new oceanfront properties. A special session of the legislature will be convened to examine these issues."black holehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07366633817665791528noreply@blogger.com