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Falsifying the Unfalsifiable IFRL-Plague-Seventh

Falsifying the Unfalsifiable

Mark of New Jersey February 3, 2009
Reading through this whole, excellent series on atheism, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, etc. has been an extremely...
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Tales told by idiots, full of sound and fury… IFRL-TLC-Scenery-GAPD-altesnational.castle-by-the-river

Tales told by idiots, full of sound and fury…

Erik Kain February 2, 2009
Much has been made recently of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, variations on the teapot analogy, and the...
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In defense of snark IFRL-TLC-War-rawpixel-id-262052

In defense of snark

Erik Kain February 2, 2009
I have to disagree with many of the recent responses to Freddie’s attack on Robert Stacy McCain,...
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Casino Politics IFRL-TLC-War-GAPD-tate.the-shipwreck-38

Casino Politics

Erik Kain February 2, 2009
In response to Freddie, Ross Douthat writes: The issue is the risk the Democrats are taking, period,...
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Thomas Aquinas Meets The Flying Spaghetti Monster IFRL-NaPP-Asia-800px-Qiu_Ying_-_Spring_Morning_in_the_Han_Palace_-_Walters_3548_-_View_G

Thomas Aquinas Meets The Flying Spaghetti Monster

Chris Dierkes February 2, 2009
As the League’s resident theological student, I have been a bit loathe to enter the atheism/spaghetti monster/god...
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Good show Cardinals… IFRL-TLC-Patterns-24144420577_ddd02c8a18_b

Good show Cardinals…

Erik Kain February 2, 2009
I thought they put up a damn good fight, and it made for an incredibly intense Super...
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eating my vegetables IFRL-TLC-Scenery-GAPD-altesnational.abbey-among-oak-trees

eating my vegetables

Freddie February 2, 2009
So you should follow Scott’s lead and read Sonny Bunch here… I have been engaged in a...
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Sunday Poem IFRL-TLC-Scenery-hope-1220981_1920

Sunday Poem

Freddie February 1, 2009
P The Salt of the Sea by Philip Primeau Above the eastern sill of sky, at early...
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not everyone who says he’s your friend is your friend

Freddie February 1, 2009
So here’s my dilemma. Real partisanship, I mean real, nasty, cut-off-the-country’s-nose-to-spite-the-other-side’s-face partisanship, can be fun, as the...
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compromising yourself into the discussion

Freddie January 31, 2009
I feel like Ross is sort of missing the point concerning Matt Yglesias’s post that he quotes....
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Emerging From the Hedged Roe IFRL-NaPP-Asia-Hirosage-FoxTrap

Emerging From the Hedged Roe

Mark of New Jersey January 31, 2009
Larison argues, contra Linker (and me), that overturning Roe wouldn’t end the culture wars with respect to...
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Roe and the Culture War Morass IFRL-Mindiv-26269642200_21005720c6_o

Roe and the Culture War Morass

Mark of New Jersey January 31, 2009
In the comments to Chris’ excellent post on Roe v. Wade and the culture wars, I wrote:...
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Capitulation and Retreat

Erik Kain January 30, 2009
Alright, so apparently I have capitulated too much (as opposed to, say,”the blogger doth protest too much,...
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D. Linker on Culture War-Abortion IFRL-NaPP-Retro-800px-France_in_XXI_Century._School

D. Linker on Culture War-Abortion

Chris Dierkes January 30, 2009
Damon Linker with a followup on the intra-left argument about whether Obama will end the culture war...
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Authority, Empathy, and Power

Erik Kain January 29, 2009
A while ago I attempted to wade through some of the differences I noticed between Cultural or...
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Stand Up Sociology IFRL-TLC-Religion-GAPD-frick.st-francis-in-the-desert

Stand Up Sociology

Chris Dierkes January 29, 2009
Jennifer Schuessler writing in the NyTimes Review of Books: Pity the poor Organization Man. Once upon a...
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So long, Culture11 IFRL-Mindiv-Society-39258784320_f61e8ae3f4_b

So long, Culture11

Erik Kain January 29, 2009
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“To the Barricades!” IFRL-TLC-Scenery-GAPD-tate.distant-view-of-maecenas-villa-tivoli-214

“To the Barricades!”

Mark of New Jersey January 29, 2009
This will hopefully be the only call to activism that I will ever issue at this site. ...
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Talking About the Same Thing When the Other Side Won’t

Mark of New Jersey January 29, 2009
Downblog, Kyle highlights and provides approval for a comment to my post this afternoon on the importance...
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goodbye to Culture11

Freddie January 29, 2009
If you Google “Culture11” you’ll find a ton of entries that say “My article at Culture11”. That’s...
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