http://intelligentstandards.com/wp Offering a unique point of view - just like everyone else Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:38:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I just watched the relevant part of the video where Hillary references RFK's assassination. Now, if everyone could stop hyperventilating - for a moment - and watch the interview, there's a nugget of context there. The context is simply this: Hillary was making the point that the democratic nomination ... http://intelligentstandards.com/wp/2008/05/24/hillarys-assassination-comment/ I've seen both of these before - way more than once. They still get me every time. This one is about Jason McElwain - an autistic special ed student at Greece Athena High School in New York. I won't spoil it for you - just watch. The next one is a ... http://intelligentstandards.com/wp/2008/03/30/inspirational/   Alright - I don't get motivated to write about things like this much, but I just caught Joss Whedon's Serenity movie on DVD. My wife and I got hooked on the Firefly series a couple of months back and are now fans. If you're familiar with the series, ... http://intelligentstandards.com/wp/2008/03/16/serenity/ "I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just." -- Thomas Jefferson I read the following post on another blog today. It started with a quote attributed to Barack Obama: "And if that child should ever get the chance to travel the world and someone should ask her where is ... http://intelligentstandards.com/wp/2008/03/06/faux-patriotism/ Today, a very respected colleague of mine forwarded me an email entitled, "Military Deaths for Twenty Years". I've posted a snippet below. I don't know who the original author is, but the author goes on to state that there were more deaths in the active military during President Clinton's ... http://intelligentstandards.com/wp/2008/02/27/on-military-deaths-for-20-years/ Alarm bells should go off in your head WHENEVER someone says, "we need to do [insert action] to protect OUR [insert noun]." When a candidate says anything that fits that pattern, it's time to find another candidate. Here's some examples to make this more specific: "We need to boycott some movie ... http://intelligentstandards.com/wp/2008/02/19/no-we-dont/ You can support the troups and still disagree with the administration's policies. You can support catching "the terrorists" while maintaining constitutionally guaranteed freedoms. You can support the ideas and candidates from more than one political party without being sympathetic to "the terrorists". You can be a truly patriotic American and be conservative. You can ... http://intelligentstandards.com/wp/2007/11/05/yes-you-can/ Turning the corner... One of the things that annoys me about the Bush administration: We are forever "almost there" - whether it's the turning point in the war in Iraq, the economy, or - you name it. I drew this up back in 2004 when the economy and ... http://intelligentstandards.com/wp/2007/08/23/turning-the-corner-2/ The Intelligent Design Wedge Sorry, but I see "Intelligent Design" and "irreducible Complexity" concepts as rather flimsy arguments from a scientific perspective. Not following any sort of scientific method that I can see, they look more like an attempt to masquerade religious explanations on the origin of life as a ... http://intelligentstandards.com/wp/2007/08/23/the-intelligent-design-wedge/ Larry King Nothing to see here but a silly little sketch of Larry King. You'll never be Somebody until you've appeared on Larry King. http://intelligentstandards.com/wp/2007/08/23/larry/