Thinking as a Hobby
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January
01: Sick as a Dog (4 comments)
02: Adaptation (8 comments)
03: Bringing Back the Draft (7 comments)
03: Who's to Blame for North Korean Nukes? (1 comments)
03: Peace Lovers (1 comments)
04: Jim Henley on Deterrence (3 comments)
04: DNA Dragnets (2 comments)
04: The Burden (1 comments)
05: Is Democracy a Religion? (8 comments)
05: The Pianist (3 comments)
06: Hitchens on Mother Teresa (2 comments)
06: Chinese in Space (8 comments)
07: Bloggomancer (1 comments)
07: Sullivan on North Korea (2 comments)
07: IDing Nuclear Weapons (1 comments)
08: Reading and Writing (2 comments)
08: UU For You, But Not For Me (15 comments)
08: North Texas Church of Freethought (Part II) (2 comments)
09: Truth (22 comments)
09: Objectivism (2 comments)
10: The Writing Life (4 comments)
11: Taking Religion Seriously (21 comments)
11: An Introduction (9 comments)
13: 25th Hour (1 comments)
13: The Constitution, Religion, and Plasticman (6 comments)
14: How Do Courts Swear In Atheists? (14 comments)
14: Human Rights Watch and Double Standards (3 comments)
14: How Cloning Will Destroy Families (1 comments)
14: Creationist Museum Acquires 5,000 Year-Old T. Rex (6 comments)
15: The Right to Own a .50-caliber Sniper Rifle (12 comments)
15: Sullivan on Crow (3 comments)
15: The Dangers of Religion (7 comments)
15: Memes, Memes, the Wonderful Fruit (3 comments)
16: No More Agency Than a Tube of Toothpaste (4 comments)
16: Seoul Mates (1 comments)
16: TIME on North Korea (1 comments)
16: But They're Just Empty Chemical Warheads (7 comments)
17: Iraq's Nuclear Threat (6 comments)
17: Cory Doctorow's Book (For Free!) (1 comments)
18: The "New" Daisy Ad (3 comments)
19: One, Two, Three, Four...How is This a Racist War? (0 comments)
20: Equality and Justice (6 comments)
20: Affirmative Action (3 comments)
20: Writing News (3 comments)
20: Determinism (Take Two) (4 comments)
20: Microwave Bombs (1 comments)
21: A Canadian on Anti-Americanism (37 comments)
21: Hitchens to the Peaceniks (14 comments)
21: Human Shields Head to Iraq (27 comments)
22: Pity the Close-Minded Skeptic (2 comments)
22: Abortion (4 comments)
22: Friedman on Iraq (2 comments)
23: Nuclear Rockets (3 comments)
23: Unplanned Parenthood (3 comments)
23: France, Steadfast Friend of Despotism (0 comments)
23: Three "Laws" of Cloning (5 comments)
24: Rice on Iraq (1 comments)
24: Encouraging Rejections (6 comments)
24: The Adarwinist Reader (3 comments)
24: The Unlikeliest Cult in History (2 comments)
25: Propaganda (4 comments)
25: Iraqi Defector Apparently Shunned (0 comments)
25: Iraq "Encourages" Scientists to Talk (0 comments)
25: Gorillas, Rummy, and a Golden Calf (3 comments)
26: The Underwear Inspector (3 comments)
27: SuperDroll Weekend (5 comments)
27: Sullivan on Iraq (12 comments)
27: The (Not So) Lovely Bones (3 comments)
27: Discursive Deconstruction of Action Jackson (0 comments)
28: Two New Books (0 comments)
28: Required Reading for War Protestors (33 comments)
28: Man vs. Machine (0 comments)
28: Deflecting the Blame (0 comments)
29: State of the Onion (8 comments)
29: All Things Contorted (0 comments)
29: Deterrence Revisited (0 comments)
29: Thinking as a Hobby (20 comments)
30: Blog Interview with Kenneth Pollack (0 comments)
30: Salon on Hitchens/Danner Debate (1 comments)
30: Mandela vs. Bush (3 comments)
31: Vegan Mothers' Diets Damage Infants' Brains (2 comments)
31: Texas Tech Professor Refuses to Patronize Creationism (6 comments)
31: Teacher Suspended for Condom Demonstration (3 comments)
February
01: Columbia Lost (5 comments)
03: Space Exploration Day (2 comments)
03: Plant a Fucking Flag (5 comments)
03: Our Obligation to North Korea (3 comments)
03: Blame Science Fiction (16 comments)
03: Friedman on Europe (0 comments)
04: Space Elevators (3 comments)
04: Scribbling Away (1 comments)
04: Watermobiles (1 comments)
05: Think of the Donkeys, Please! (1 comments)
05: Americans Persecute Asylum Seekers (5 comments)
05: Snow vs. Aldouri (0 comments)
05: Powell's Presentation (1 comments)
06: Falling on Deaf Ears (2 comments)
06: Permission for U2 Flights? (5 comments)
06: NEAT Neural Networks (4 comments)
06: Think of the Donkeys (Part II) (1 comments)
07: Saddam Caves (1 comments)
07: Westfahl's Response (1 comments)
07: Shaving and Sex (5 comments)
07: Questions for the Anti-War Movement (10 comments)
08: A Healthy Distrust (4 comments)
09: Snow/Hume vs. Levin (2 comments)
09: Friedman on France (1 comments)
09: Turkey Rejects Human Shield (2 comments)
09: Ten Reasons Not to Invade Iraq... (6 comments)
09: Leaving South Korea? (1 comments)
10: More on Human Shields (0 comments)
10: Dr. Germ Says Iraq is Clean (0 comments)
10: One-Way Trip to Mars (3 comments)
11: Cross-Blog Iraq Debate (0 comments)
11: Answers to the Anti-War Questions (7 comments)
11: The Next Resolution (13 comments)
12: Terror Threats (5 comments)
12: Duct Tape? (1 comments)
12: Arafat Sends Kim Jong-Il Birthday Bouquet (0 comments)
12: And Now a Word from bin Laden (0 comments)
13: Test Your Critical Thinking Skills (1 comments)
13: Hitchens Interview (1 comments)
13: Only American Preemption? (4 comments)
13: Some Other Responses to the Anti-Warriors (5 comments)
14: Full-court Blix (0 comments)
14: Sparring Headlines (1 comments)
14: Enough About Me, Let's Talk About Hume (5 comments)
15: Sullivan on the U.N. (0 comments)
15: What Would Ghandi Do? (2 comments)
15: Genocide (1 comments)
16: The Double Edge of Science (2 comments)
16: Another Watered-Down Resolution (4 comments)
16: Book of Illusions (3 comments)
16: The Face of the Future (0 comments)
17: My Name is Derek, and I'm a Jingoistic Warmonger (3 comments)
17: Gender Neutral Oscars (3 comments)
17: Man vs. Machine (Part II) (2 comments)
18: Chirac Scolds New Europe for Being Naughty (2 comments)
18: Dealing with North Korea (0 comments)
18: Watermobiles (Part II) (1 comments)
18: Pollard on the Protests (10 comments)
19: Jacques Chirac Changes Last Name (2 comments)
19: Get Your Freedom Fries (1 comments)
19: Fromage.com Sales Down 15% (1 comments)
19: Wining and Dining Tyrants (1 comments)
20: ConDFW (0 comments)
20: The Quantum Speedboat (0 comments)
20: Evian Spelled Backwards is... (2 comments)
21: Salon on Human Shields (3 comments)
21: Pollack on Iraq (1 comments)
22: ConDFW (Brief Report) (2 comments)
22: WIB, BSIW (3 comments)
24: ConDFW (Not-as-Brief Report) (1 comments)
24: Charge of the Lame-Ass Brigade (3 comments)
24: Winter Friggin' Wonderland (3 comments)
24: J-Walkin' (1 comments)
24: Jed Hartman on Military Action and Iraq (0 comments)
24: Unilateralism and Utter Hypocrisy (5 comments)
25: Iced In (1 comments)
25: Rebuilding Afghanistan (0 comments)
25: An AIDS Vaccine (9 comments)
25: So Long, Pioneer (1 comments)
26: Portraits of Protest (0 comments)
26: Ice, Ice...Maybe (2 comments)
26: Listen to Iraqis (4 comments)
26: Rebuilding Afghanistan (Take II) (0 comments)
26: Dennett's Freedom Evolves (6 comments)
26: Action Alert: Human Cloning Ban (0 comments)
26: Salon on Turing and AI (8 comments)
27: Evian Response (0 comments)
27: The Saddam Interview (0 comments)
27: Dennett's Freedom Evolves (Take II) (0 comments)
27: Giving the Godless French Their Due (4 comments)
28: Reproductive Cloning (3 comments)
28: Would You Vote for a Jew? (1 comments)
28: Under God Under the Gun (0 comments)
March
01: More on the Pledge Ruling (6 comments)
03: Jim Henley on Pollack on Iraq (0 comments)
03: Questioning (0 comments)
03: Idiotic Pawns (2 comments)
03: The Breakfast From Hell (1 comments)
04: Voodoo and Mummies (3 comments)
04: Even More on the Pledge (0 comments)
05: Writing Group Update (1 comments)
05: Kim Jong (makes me) Ill (3 comments)
05: A Cure for the Common Cold (0 comments)
05: Three Strikes (1 comments)
06: Dogs and Monkeys (1 comments)
06: Blogging, Sex, and Wilt Chamberlain (3 comments)
06: Belief and Its Effects (7 comments)
06: The Earth at Night (2 comments)
06: Pro-War NPR? (3 comments)
06: National Iranian Television (Update) (2 comments)
07: Sullivan on Kinsley (0 comments)
07: Customized Physiology (3 comments)
07: Faster, Faster (3 comments)
07: Ebert on the Pledge (2 comments)
07: Bin Laden's Caravan? (0 comments)
08: Lost in La Mancha (0 comments)
09: Is Half-Compliance Compliance? (3 comments)
09: Not Just Irrelevant (0 comments)
09: Why the Hell Are We in Space? (3 comments)
09: The Fate of the Iraqi Early-Surrenderers (4 comments)
10: The Effectiveness of Torture (17 comments)
10: Dallas Proposed Panhandling Ordinance (1 comments)
10: Evolutionary Neural Net Update (4 comments)
11: Exhausted? (2 comments)
11: Hitchens on Religion and War (3 comments)
11: The Mother of All Bombs (5 comments)
11: Mickey D's Wi-Fi (2 comments)
12: Sullivan on the New Geopolitical Reality (0 comments)
12: The Slow March Towards Death (12 comments)
12: Gulf War II Plans (0 comments)
12: Artificial Embrogeny and Bicameral Brains (2 comments)
13: Who is Killing Iraqi Babies? (3 comments)
13: Regime Change (20 comments)
13: SFWA Neutrality Against the War (3 comments)
13: Dwindling Human Shields (0 comments)
14: International Security (9 comments)
14: French-Hating Gone Mad (5 comments)
14: Musicians and the War (23 comments)
14: Saddam's Torturers (4 comments)
14: Anti-War Saboteurs (13 comments)
16: Flashback to My Youth (3 comments)
17: It's Beginning (32 comments)
17: Heinlein on Religion (10 comments)
17: Miracle Carp Talks to Jews (0 comments)
17: The Dixie Ditzes (0 comments)
17: Bring Out Yer Fake Dead! (3 comments)
17: The Ultimatum (1 comments)
18: The Rejection (0 comments)
18: Writing Update (4 comments)
18: Socrates Cafe (7 comments)
18: The Arrogant Empire by Fareed Zakaria (13 comments)
19: Revising and Submitting (3 comments)
19: Our Negligible Friends, the Kosovars (10 comments)
19: Some Iraqis Already Surrending (0 comments)
19: See No Evil (3 comments)
19: Blair's Speech (2 comments)
19: War (4 comments)
19: Healy on Gulf War I (1 comments)
20: Keeping On Keepin' On (2 comments)
20: More on the SFWA and War (8 comments)
20: Shucks and Aww (15 comments)
20: When the Job is Done (1 comments)
21: Puking and Hookie (5 comments)
21: Dead or Injured? (2 comments)
21: Canadians Boo Our National Anthem (7 comments)
21: Bowden and Swofford on the War (1 comments)
21: Iraqi Civilian Reaction So Far (1 comments)
21: Best News Sites for the War (7 comments)
21: Pope in Pain (1 comments)
22: Denial is a River in Iraq (1 comments)
22: The Fine, Unbiased Coverage by the BBC (5 comments)
22: Books for Soldiers (0 comments)
22: Protesters and Police (0 comments)
22: Flapping Jaws (8 comments)
22: Mark Bowden on the Protests (1 comments)
22: Wesley Clark on the Aftermath (4 comments)
23: When War? (6 comments)
23: Human Shields Report (0 comments)
23: What the Arab World is Seeing (1 comments)
23: Images of POWs and the Geneva Convention (9 comments)
23: Dawkins Puts His Foot In It (again) (3 comments)
23: The Rules of War (3 comments)
24: Pray for Me (7 comments)
25: Day Two (4 comments)
25: Right and Wrong (20 comments)
26: Destroying Your Passport in Protest (3 comments)
26: The Last Day of Corporate Hell (0 comments)
27: Tolstoy, Prediction, and Pacifism (17 comments)
27: Sodomy in Texas (7 comments)
27: Demining Monkeys (2 comments)
27: Iraqi Public Opinion (7 comments)
27: Dallas Passes Panhandling Ban (0 comments)
27: We Just Want Your Yard (3 comments)
27: Bad Analogies (8 comments)
28: Keeping an Eye on North Korea (3 comments)
28: SARS (0 comments)
28: Hitchens on the Naysayers (0 comments)
28: Friedman on How to Know When We've Won (5 comments)
28: The DARPA Challenge (3 comments)
29: War Controversy at Work (3 comments)
29: Unpersoned Ground Vehicles (2 comments)
30: A Pretty Song About Dry Rot (4 comments)
31: Religion and the War (6 comments)
31: Navigating the Blogosphere (23 comments)
31: Strange Horizons Blog Editorial (9 comments)
April
01: Still Writing Along (0 comments)
01: Diversity Shmersity (11 comments)
01: Leaflets and Radio (0 comments)
01: Down the Rabbit Hole (44 comments)
01: What Will They Want? (4 comments)
02: Turd by Turd (13 comments)
02: Women in Combat (4 comments)
02: See, He Really is Dead (5 comments)
02: Selecting for Intelligence (4 comments)
03: Tony Blair's Doctrine of International Community (11 comments)
03: Responses to Lamott (0 comments)
03: This is What We're Bringing to an End (0 comments)
03: The Poetry of D.H. Rumsfeld (3 comments)
04: Religious Tolerance (22 comments)
04: Intelligence and Religion (4 comments)
04: Medved on Captain America (3 comments)
05: Lies, Damn Lies, and Anecdotal News References (1 comments)
06: Chick Publications (3 comments)
06: Bernard Lewis on C-Span (2 comments)
07: Weekend Wrap-up (6 comments)
07: North Korea and the UN (19 comments)
07: Denial is a River in Iraq (Part II) (4 comments)
07: Hearts and Minds? (3 comments)
08: Antireligious Discourse (11 comments)
08: Sullivan's Assessment (8 comments)
08: Bee Bee See? (4 comments)
08: Our Pals the Chinese (2 comments)
09: Flytrap (14 comments)
09: The Fall of Baghdad (2 comments)
09: Geraldo Got the Ass-Hand (2 comments)
09: Gun Ownership in Iraq (3 comments)
09: Riding Saddam's Head (5 comments)
09: China, North Korea, and the UN (6 comments)
09: Battleground God and the Loch Ness Monster (8 comments)
10: Russia Helps with North Korea (5 comments)
10: Writing Update (3 comments)
10: Iraqi Nuke Program Found? (1 comments)
10: Women in Combat (Take II) (2 comments)
10: Spider Robinson Bitches About "The Future" (8 comments)
11: Lions, Cheetahs, and Bears? Oh my. (3 comments)
11: Democracy Will Never Work There (10 comments)
11: Ebert on Michael Moore (5 comments)
11: Get Out Yer Tinfoil Hats (19 comments)
12: Clean Hands Scenarios (19 comments)
12: Believing Believers (8 comments)
12: Jon Stewart on the Liberation (7 comments)
12: Instant Gratification (26 comments)
12: More on Staging Statue Toppling (3 comments)
14: Neural Netting (2 comments)
14: Flytrap TOC (1 comments)
14: Arab Ripples (3 comments)
14: Friedman's Sand Wall (2 comments)
14: Those Effects Are Gonna Be Pretty Special (5 comments)
14: Real Time (7 comments)
15: Neural Net Update (0 comments)
15: Iraq's New Government (1 comments)
15: Unintelligent Design (2 comments)
16: Are SF Writers Pessimistic? (17 comments)
16: Iraqi Body Count Project (7 comments)
16: Dennis Miller on Catholicism (6 comments)
16: Jim Henley on Early WMD Reports (0 comments)
16: China Comes to the Table (7 comments)
17: Potsdam Lite (2 comments)
17: Peaceful Female Rule (15 comments)
17: Saddam's Fantasy Art (6 comments)
17: Disappointing Terrorists (3 comments)
18: Secular Holidays (13 comments)
18: Empathy and Systemising (13 comments)
18: El Gordo y El Pequeño (11 comments)
19: Stay Out of My Effing PC (7 comments)
20: At Least a Little Bit of Sanity (0 comments)
20: Friedman's Bubbles (5 comments)
20: In a Cabin in the Mountains (17 comments)
24: The Arbuckle Diaries (6 comments)
25: Dini Fini (0 comments)
25: Impeach Bush (17 comments)
26: America's Favorite Pastime (3 comments)
26: AIDS and SARS (0 comments)
26: The Irascible Rummy (0 comments)
26: The Illusion of Self-Consciousness (6 comments)
27: Bill Richardson on North Korea (4 comments)
27: Bigamy and Sodomy Laws (19 comments)
27: Who Needs Math? (11 comments)
27: Metropolis (9 comments)
28: North Korean Options (5 comments)
29: Love Thy Enemy (16 comments)
29: Morphing Solidly Into Middle Class (8 comments)
30: Dallas Personal Robotics Group (1 comments)
30: A Better Future (0 comments)
30: Incest (3 comments)
May
01: Burning the Candle at Three Ends (4 comments)
01: Loyalty Day (14 comments)
02: Religion in Politics (9 comments)
02: Societies Making Bad Decisions (2 comments)
03: X2 (16 comments)
04: Man-Eggs (4 comments)
04: Even More Annoying Than Andy Rooney (0 comments)
05: The Drinking Age (3 comments)
05: Ka-Pow (1 comments)
05: Skeletor as the Ace of Clubs (1 comments)
05: Why Geeks Love the Matrix (5 comments)
06: Collective Altruism (9 comments)
06: The Economist on North Korea (0 comments)
06: Charlie Stross on Novel Writing (4 comments)
07: Being Yourself (8 comments)
08: Sanctions Against Iraq (10 comments)
09: Wired on the Darpa Challenge (0 comments)
12: Dallas and Robots (4 comments)
12: Urinal Physics (4 comments)
13: Democracy in Inaction (15 comments)
16: The Matrix Regurgitated (3 comments)
16: Cyc Out (0 comments)
19: Writing Update (4 comments)
19: More on the Matrix (9 comments)
20: I Guess "Ratbot" Wasn't Catchy Enough (1 comments)
22: Literature with a Little "L" (7 comments)
22: Date Rape (6 comments)
22: Tracking Criminals With GPS (4 comments)
22: Lower Tuition for Illegal Immigrants (10 comments)
23: Kurzweil on Matrix Reloaded (4 comments)
23: More Illegal Immigration Nonsense (3 comments)
26: A Pair of Movie Reviewlets (0 comments)
26: Genetic Algorithms and Population Genetics (1 comments)
26: Depressed Liberals (2 comments)
26: The Liberal, Corporate-Owned Media (6 comments)
27: Bush's AIDS Policy (1 comments)
27: NYT on Fogel and Checkers (0 comments)
28: Writing Update (3 comments)
29: Rally for Extra Credit (12 comments)
30: The Edge Reading List (0 comments)
30: Robert J. Sawyer on AI in SF (1 comments)
30: Spelling Bees Be Stupid (12 comments)
June
01: Cultural Islands (3 comments)
02: Franken v. O'Reilly (14 comments)
02: Images of Evolved Nets (7 comments)
07: Corporate Crap (12 comments)
10: Where Are the WMD? (8 comments)
10: Social Insecurity (1 comments)
11: Money Well Spent (7 comments)
14: The Government's Disinterest in Religion (