Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Village Voice for Nazism
[Jewish?] Michael Feingold in the VILLAGE VOICE: "I personally think [Republicans] should be exterminated before they cause any more harm".
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
College life
"What students are getting is four or five years of country club living."
With campuses looking more and more like resorts and the undergraduate experience feeling more like a four or five year vacation on a luxury cruise liner or at Disneyland, The Motley Monk would observe the culture has moved away from an "academic intensive" experience.
Monday, June 25, 2012
Saturday, June 23, 2012
Famine in India
Thirty years later, the same policy of neglect contributed to a famine that killed as many as 10 million people in India, again because of the Malthusian fallacy that, as Sir Evelyn Baring told Parliament, “every benevolent attempt made to mitigate the effects of famine and defective sanitation serves but to enhance the evils resulting from overpopulation.”
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Left and right
Ann Post is another one of those directionally-challenged Episcopalians for whom left is always right.
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Expectations
"The disconnect between legions of inexperienced college graduates expecting managerial jobs" which is to say, jobs in a bureaucracy.
Sunday, June 17, 2012
Friday, June 15, 2012
Foolishness
When somebody wants to make a complete fool of himself, the best thing to do is to get out of his way.
Sunday, June 10, 2012
Elite schools
A shorthand job description for faculty at this school would be, Enabling the Entitled.
Saturday, June 9, 2012
Research
The problem in research always comes back to, if you
stay within the accepted mainstream, you will only know
the already known.
Hahnemann
Hahnemann founded his subject on the principles of the Law
of Similars (like cures like), the Law of Infinitesimal Dose
(the more dilute, the stronger the potency), and that illness
was always specific to the individual.
Iatrogenic
It is a published statistic that 56
people die in the U.S. each hour from iatrogenic causes
[death caused inadvertently by a physician or surgeon or
by medical treatment [pharmaceutical drug] or diagnostic
procedure); that’s approximately 1,300 each day, 490,000
each year. Forget about cancer and heart disease. These are
preventable deaths.
In illness, about 15 percent of the time, especially in the
treatment of trauma and life-threatening situations, your
life depends upon the near-miracles of modern medicine.
What you need to avoid like the plague is the marketing science
form of medicine.
Hypocrisy in medicine
Any good scientist (as I consider any good physician) at
some point in his or her career begins to “feel” this element
of hypocrisy.
Thursday, June 7, 2012
DNA
In comparison to the volume of information
stored in a single strand of DNA, it would be like comparing
one glass of water to all of the oceans on Earth.
Committees
I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Democracy
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Germany
As Henry Kissinger succinctly put it: “Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world.”
Monday, June 4, 2012
Economics
"Normal people solve crosswords; economists write papers (of which 80 percent are never read)."
My Lord of Canterbury on "gay marriage"
"In his 1989 essay The Body’s Grace, Dr Williams argued that the Church’s acceptance of contraception meant that it acknowledged the validity of nonprocreative sex. This could be taken as a green light for gay sex".
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