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  • Mom, Apple Pie, and the Ghost of Quagmires Past

    01/21/2004 11:39:19 AM PST · by marron · 122 replies · 1,883+ views
    21 January, 2004 | marron
    My friend is a veteran of the early war in Viet Nam, when it was not yet an official war, when we were first there on the ground quietly and in small numbers. He saw the war both from the above-ground military perspective and from the slightly clandestine side when he was “loaned” over to Air America, hauling mysterious cargos to and from nameless airstrips in areas we never admitted to. He has all of the usual kinds of stories men tell of their time in the war zone, tales usually punctuated by punch lines not all perhaps fit for...
  • Announcing a New Book by Alamo-Girl and betty boop [Update at #329]

    11/13/2006 7:34:14 PM PST · by betty boop · 407 replies · 8,691+ views
    Alamo-Girl and betty boop | November 13, 2006 | betty boop
    Table of Contents Authors’ Foreword PrologueDramatis Personae The SceneThe Dialogue The so-called “Cartesian Split” What is “all that there is?” Pure, blind chance? First reality and second realities What is knowledge? Does science “have it in” for God? Is Intelligent Design science? What is matter? What lies at the beginning of “all that there is?” Aristotle’s Four Causes What is “randomness?” First Adam, Second Adam Is science “killing the soul?” The Public Square: a “values-neutral zone?” What is science? What is the universe? What is life? What is reality? Endnotes Appendix Nuts and Bolts Numbers Big and Small Combinatorics,...