Andrew Sullivan's Blog, page 2717
July 25, 2010
The View From Your Window
Jacksonville, Florida, 1.30 pm
Florida - United States - Metro Areas - Business and Economy - Gulf of Mexico
For Its Own Sake
The New Statesman interviews Rowan Williams:
If religion is pushed into private spaces, as increasingly it tends tobe by our public discourse, we lose one of the most emotionally andimaginatively resourceful ways of seeing human behaviour; we losesomething of the sense that certain acts may be good independently ofwhether they are sensible or successful in the world's terms. I supposeyou could say that we lose the "contemplative" dimension to ethics, thebelief that some things are worth...
July 24, 2010
Face Of The Day
From Vice magazine's "Still Lifes" series. Photo by Tanyth Berkeley.
United States - Search - Bank of England - Apple - HighSchool
The Rules Of Conversation, Ctd
Scott Adams keeps talking:
As a general rule, the more dangerous or inappropriate the
conversation, the more interesting it is. You'll have to use your
judgment to know when you've crossed the line.
Also as a general
rule, conversations about how people have or will interact are
interesting, and conversations about objects are dull. So steer toward
topics that involve human perceptions and feelings, and away from
objects and things.
You also want to avoid any topic that fallsinto the "you had t...
Mental Health Break
Pretty awesome, unless you hate spiders:
(Hat tip: TDW)
Mental health - Health - Oceania - Directories - Policy and Advocacy
How Freeways Kill Communities, Ctd
E.D. Kain seconds Timothy Lee:
If there was ever an item so ripe for liberal-libertarian cooperation,
this is it. Really, this strikes me as a human concern, and one which
members of whatever political stripe should be up in arms over. Whether
there is much that can be done to repair the damage already wrought on
American cities is another question.
United States - Politics - Recreation - Roads and Highways - Democratic
Trig: One More Time
A reader writes:
I completely agree with you on the importance of this issue and the discredit that the lack of inquiry places on the journalistic profession. However, I cannot agree with your recent suggestion (not the first time) that the story may boil down to a simple exaggeration of the facts of the "wild ride."
While it is certain that her tale is not credible, it is not just the wild ride aspect of the story that raises eyebrows; this has to be taken in the context of all the other...
The Life Of A Copy Editor
Lori Fradkin explains it:
The job has its perks—an accumulation of random knowledge, forinstance—but it also has its side effects when you unintentionallydrink the copy Kool-Aid. Once you train yourself to spot errors, youcan't not spot them. You can't simply shut off the careful reading whenyou leave the office. You notice typos in novels, missing words inother magazines, incorrect punctuation on billboards. You havenightmares that your oversight turned Mayor Bloomberg into a "pubic"figure...
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