Archives for May, 2011
Torture is wrong
Posted by Josh Rosenau on May 4, 2011 Cosma Shalizi, 11/4/2007: “The object of torture is torture”: The point of this torture is not to extract information; there are better ways to do that, which we have long used. The point of this torture is not to extract confessions; there are no show trials of terrorists or auto-de-fes in the offing. The point…
Disco. ‘Tute descends into self-parody
Posted by Josh Rosenau on May 2, 2011 It’s a running joke that any time some horrible person is in the news, Discovery Institute fellow David Klinghoffer is sure to pen a piece trying to link that person to the nefarious ways of evolution-defenders. He’s written such pieces about Hitler, the Columbine killers, the Holocaust museum shooter, and many other modern monsters. Today’s…
A tense moment
Posted by Josh Rosenau on May 2, 2011 Via the White House Flickr site, a tense moment in the Situation Room yesterday, as the national security team was updated on the raid on a Pakistani compound where Osama bin Laden had been in hiding. The weight of the moment plays out a little differently on each face. The political, diplomatic, and military cost…
Joshua Rosenau spends his days defending the teaching of evolution at the