Michael Flynn's Blog, page 73

"Take off my flesh and sit in my bones"

We Had So Much Fun

with the two photographs of the sea at La Jolla (where one could mark for comparison the high tide line on both photos) that we thought Our Faithful Reader would enjoy these two photos.  The first one accompanied an "open" letter by 250 scientists, mostly not "climate" scientists, denouncing those with doubts about the Sacred Simulations.  The second comes from the same photographer. 





Here, side-by-side:


There are two theories: 
1. The Last Penguin reached the ice floe first ...

Crimes of the New Age

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Slippery Slope?  What Slippery Slope?

The government intervenes to tell a woman what to do with her body. 

www.philly.com/philly/news/homepage/20100503__SHAMEFUL__PRESSURE_.html

Cartoon Philosophy

This is Actually Rather Aristotelian

Now -This- is Funny

Differences in Color Perceptions

Plus ca Change

Head for Higher Ground!

Watch How Sea Levels Have Risen
at LaJolla in the past 130 years.


h/t: WUWT

Quaestiones

Elsewhere, the Usual Suspects brought up a perennial question, and it amused me to take the counterarguments and the sed contra from what seem at first unlikely sources.

De moralitate atheorum

Question: Whether those who do not believe in God may act morally. 

Objection 1. It would seem not, because  as Jean-Paul Sartre held in "Existentialism is a Humanism, there disappears with God all possibility of finding values in an intelligible heaven. There can no longer be any good a priori, since t...

The Horror of Globalwarming(tm)

Come, Let Us Reason Together

What is odd about this report?

LiveScience reports. "Warming temperatures are melting patches of ice that have been in place for thousands of years in the mountains of the Canadian High Arctic and in turn revealing a treasure trove of ancient hunting tools,"
They cite as examples:

In 1997, sheep hunters discovered a 4,300-year-old dart shaft in caribou dung that had become exposed as the ice receded. . . . [Archaeologist Tom:] Andrews and his team (including...

In the Lion's Mouth

Oderint dum Metuant

For your amusement, a short draft passage from In the Lion's Mouth

In this passage, Donovan is a passenger on the ship of Gidula, one of the leaders of a revolution among the Shadow-agents of the Confederation.  The rebels are trying to convince Donovan to join them.  Present are Donovan (whom the rebels call "Gesh"), Gidula, and Gidula's servant Podiin, who has just brought some appetizers and drinks.  Gidula calls citizens of the Periphery "Peripherals," and praises Confed...

Headlines

A Disturbing Headline to Read in Your Morning Paper

"Locusts on Pizzas a 'Tasty' New Topping"--headline, Metro.co.uk, April 21