Category: Polemics
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The Pussy Cat Bows of the Yap-and-Scribble Bow Tie Milquetoasts
Pussy Bow is elliptical for 'Pussy Cat Bow,' the latter a well-established term in the world of women's fashion. Melania Trump sported one at the second debate. Was she out to implant some sly suggestion? I have no idea. But it occurred to me this morning that boy tie boys such as George Will also…
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Politics as Adversarial and the Stupidity of Republicans
Perhaps you think I go too far when I liken politics to warfare. Well then, will you admit that it is adversarial? The defense attorney in a court of law fails to do his job if he strives for objectivity: he is paid to argue on behalf of his client. He is paid to be…
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Edward Feser on Jerry A. Coyne
In Omnibus of Fallacies, Ed Feser applies his formidable analytic and polemical skills to that sorry specimen of scientism, Jerry Coyne. The First Things review begins like this: Faith versus Fact is some kind of achievement. Biologist Jerry Coyne has managed to write what might be the worst book yet published in the New Atheist…
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Hitchens on Falwell
The following entry has been languishing in the queue for years. I just now finished it for what it's worth. ……………. Which is worse, the fundamentalism of a Jerry Falwell or the snarling hatred of religion of a Christopher Hitchens, who, in his anti-Falwell diatribe, shows just how far someone who is a leftist about…
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Sick of Political Acrimony, Reader Goes on ‘News Fast’
This from reader K. W. with my comments in blue: I am taking a break from all news and social media. I will be keeping up with your blog, however, as your most recent treatment on the Incarnation is intriguing. I'm taking a break because I'm tired of all of the vehemence being spewed out…
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Jerry Coyne’s Latest Outburst re: Pope Francis, Big Bang and Evolution
It doesn't merit a lot of attention, but I will mention two stupid moves that Jerry Coyne makes. Or if not stupid, then intellectually dishonest. First, Coyne states that "We know now that the universe could have originated from 'nothing' through purely physical processes, if you see 'nothing' as the 'quantum vacuum' of empty space." …