Posted on 08/18/2008 2:44:34 PM PDT by AnnGora
I am sorry that John Edwards had an affair with a campaign worker. But I am not surprised. Men like to have affairs. Men like to have sex with new women. That's just how men are and always have been.
I am not surprised that a major Presidential candidate and former V.P. nominee of a major party had an affair. Politicians are men and they have all of the yearnings and drives that other men have. They do not check their flaws and essential elements at the Capitol cloakroom.
Nor is it a sign that Edwards might not have been a great public servant. The list of important men with great achievements who have had extramarital liaisons goes from Julius Caesar to Napoleon to Thomas Jefferson to John F. Kennedy to Bill Clinton and undoubtedly has a lot longer to run. John Edwards and Rielle Hunter are only a tiny footnote in this magnum opus
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That’s ridiculous. First of all, very few animal species eat their own offspring. Second, almost every human society that practiced cannibalism had never heard of Darwin or evolutionary theory. They had their own pagan creation myths. You can’t blame evolution for cannibalism.
People who condemn evolutionary theory rarely have even read about it. There is nothing in the theory of evolution that argues either for or against the existence of a God. Therefore, an evolutionist can be a Christian, a Jew, an atheist, an agnostic, or whatever else.
“Does the rooster mate with just one chicken?”
Oh no Mr. Coolidge. Many”
“Tell that to Mrs. Coolidge.
Edwards is not Stein’s hero. That would be Al Franken.
I'm a "member" of the snark society---ring a bell?
No. What is that? Sounds interesting.
Herb Caen, formerly of the SF Chronicle, used to publish an annual tribute to the Beach and the story.
I’ve seen public television shows where a certain great ape (I thought it was a chimp?) killed and ate its own offspring. It’s not at all ridiculous. Many species do that.
I don’t blame evolution for cannibalism. My point is, that if you regard yourself as nothing but a more evolved ape, you have a sort of built in excuse for all sorts of wicked behavior.
Perhaps people who condemn evolutionary theory have rarely read about it, but I was raised an atheist evolutionist and attended public schools all my life.
I don’t know if I concur with your definition of “Christian” if it includes denying the truth of the Bible. Perhaps we can still be saved, as though through fire, even if we deny large portions of statements of direct creation sprinkled throughout Scripture. I would not, however, risk it.
Care to elaborate? FR is pretty decent about avoiding perjoratives and getting to a civil debate. If we are just going to call each other names, what is the point?
Okay, you're not Looney Tunes...
Perhaps you felt I was implying that you, personally, are some sort of kid-eater.
The “you” I was using was as an impersonal second person singular, you know? “If you could do this, you could do that.” Nothing personal intended, and if you do have children, I am sure you are very kind to them.
Over the years, I have heard a lot of hideous behavior justified by “we were just responding to our animal urges.” The older I get, the more odious this excuse becomes.
Bueller? Bueller?
Aha! You're running in the wrong circles.
I’d hoped people would mistake me for a PHD economist because of my perspicacious comments about economics. Not because I knew the story about the President and the rooster.
But thanks anyway. I guess.
Frank Beach delivered his presidential address to the Eastern Psychological Assn. annual meeting. As was the custom, he reviewed some data from his own laboratory to the fawning, and yawning, audience. Noticing they weren't listening well, he began to add bogus, bizarre, data. When that didn't get them asking questions, as he had hoped, he said: "And so, distinguished colleagues, you can see that my data follow the pattern typical of the well-known "Coolidge Effect."
Since no one from the audience queried, even at that point, Dr. Beach presented the story of the Coolidge's Sunday outings. Not until the punch line did the audience show any attention. But then, when their brains caught up, they literally fell out of their seats laughing.
That's it.
Except...Beach went on to demonstrate the relative universality of the effect in a wide variety of laboratory animals and published it all.
Are you a Snark?
Yep.
Ever since he wrote this column, the ghosts of Julius Caesar, Napoleon, and Thomas Jefferson have been haunting him to demand an apology.
Indeed. Stein is a hack with no talents other than the spinning of spurious pseudo-logic. The fact that he enjoys a reputation for being smart is a testament to public gullibility.
Elite company we are in.
I took a course from Walter Heller at the UofMinn in the 70’s. Never met the “Great Man” but got to meet a nice teaching assistant from Asia (never understood a word he said). I think I’ve pretty much cleansed my mind of the experience.
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