Meanwhile:
- New Hampshire legislator parades his ignorance.
That's what New Hampshirites are up against. It doesn't for a moment occur to Hopper that the "morality and piety" mentioned in the NH Constitution might mean something very different to (say) a Unitarian than it does to him. And he doesn't understand that his own words --
...if people are self regulated by their own moral compass less government is needed...
-- undermine both his own position and New Hampshire's famously individualist spirit. "Self-regulated," "their own moral compass" -- gays have selves, too, and moral compasses. Hopper doesn't know this. Someone should tell him.
The paper he cites as evidence of his position, by the way, isn't about marriage equality. It's a Heritage Foundation paper from the year 2000, discussing the evils of no-fault divorce. - Science is usually collaborative effort, but the myth is that it's one lone genius.
- In Memoriam: Coptic Christian Pope Shenouda III.
- We're losing soil. Seriously.
The biggest problem is that it takes such a long time for soil to form – some 10-12,000 years to build up to depths we might describe as productive land. First, the rocks that have made it from the Earth's interior to the surface must be "weathered" by wind and rain, a disintegration that is assisted by microorganisms, insects and lichen. This organic matter decays, feeding more organisms, including, in time, plants. It is the accumulation of hundreds of years of this organic matter, living organisms and minerals that we call soil. It takes a few hundred years to produce each centimetre of soil (although it is a little faster in the tropics), but it can be lost in a matter of hours.
- The old feminists were right.
- Why you don't want to leave drug safety to "the market." (Oh, have I made this point before? Too bad. "Enlightened self-interest" gets trumped by ignorance and money every time.) Via Making Light's sidebar.
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