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Cure for Crohn’s disease? Eat worms
04.12.04 | Permalink | 3 CommentsGood news for chutney’s wife. Weinstock’s theory is that our immune systems have evolved to cope with the presence of such parasites, and can become overactive without them.
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What would Baby Jesus wear?
04.11.04 | Permalink | Comments Off on What would Baby Jesus wear?In a further move to crassly commercialize this website, I’ve opened MyIrony Feed & Seed—a collection of t-shirts, trucker hats, and beer steins featuring the new MyIrony logo. Proceeds will go to my cashew addiction. And in an Easter announcement, I’ve also opened up a second shop—Baby Jesus Fine Women’s Wear. Now you can tell […]
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Why not atheism?
04.10.04 | Permalink | Comments Off on Why not atheism?Kathryn Joyce has a good piece on atheism over at The Revealer. In contrast to modernist predictions of the decline of religion (and the rise of atheism and secularism), we’ve seen a rise in popular spirituality and fundamentalism. With author Alan Wolfe, she wonders what atheism has done to contribute to its own demise. The […]
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This Easter: Kill the wabbit!
04.09.04 | Permalink | Comments Off on This Easter: Kill the wabbit!As reported by MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann (no link yet) and elsewhere on the web, this Resurrection Weekend it’s all the rage to kill the wabbit. People who attended Saturday’s performance at Glassport’s memorial stadium quoted performers as saying, “There is no Easter bunny,” and described the show as being a demonstration of how Jesus was […]
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If you can talk about it, it ain’t Tao
04.08.04 | Permalink | Comments Off on If you can talk about it, it ain’t TaoRon Hogan has put out a fun new translation of the Tao te Ching, the key text of philosophical Taoism. At only eighty-one short poems, it’s a quick read. Here’s how Hogan renders my favorite: If you drink too much, you get drunk. The engine won’t start if you’re always tinkering with it. If you […]
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A modest proposal: UUFSIGF
Are Unitarian Univeralists stymied by their pluralism? Not for long.
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