Sleepy Old Bear Diaries

… about a new ideological re-education camp called the University of Delaware.
Amerikkka SSR.
They are coming to get you.
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In a letter sent yesterday to University of Delaware President Patrick Harker, FIRE pointed out the stark contradiction between the residence life education program and the values of a free society. FIRE’s letter to President Harker also underscored [...]

Via Small Dead Animals.
Look what the Palestinians do with your benevolent dollars.

‘Science’ is in danger of becoming a completely irrational religion–lcomparable to people’s fixation with leaders like Jim Jones (think kool-aid).
This is my favorite study of the bunch. Check out its results.

It reports no statistically significant association between total fat intake and risk of coronary heart disease.
It reports no statistically significant association between animal fat [...]

Breast cancer cannot safely be treated in Arab lands: “One Saudi woman ignored the cancer growing in her breast because she didn’t want to risk a referral to a male doctor. Another was divorced by her husband on the mere suspicion she had the disease, while a third was dragged away from a mammogram [...]

Now here is an article by an American psychologist on same-sex ‘parenting’.
 
Proponents of same-sex marriage believe the only thing children really need is love. Based on that supposition, they conclude it’s just as good for children to be raised by loving parents of the same sex, as it is to be raised by loving parents [...]

A week ago one of my colleagues gave a very interesting seminar on Dawkins and Nietzsche and a whole lot of interesting stuff. He didn’t say anything about Alistair McGrath, and so I am supplying a link here.

Two British researchers are suggesting policy makers abandon the Kyoto Protocol because the treaty has “failed” and is too limited to fix a complex problem.
“The Kyoto strategy is elegant but misplaced,” wrote Gwyn Prins of the London School of Economics and Steve Rayner at Oxford in Wednesday’s issue of the journal Nature.
“Climate change is not [...]

1. Stop Making Excuses.
As with every recovery program, the first step is admitting you have a problem. So, no more poverty, no more residential schools, no more colonialism, no more racism, no more FASD, no more (fill in the blank). No more excuses. Period. As long as you have an excuse at the ready [...]

Leave your car in a handicapped parking spot and you’ll be fined. Abort your handicapped child and you’ll receive government financing.
Michael Coren. Go here. 
Thanks, Robert.

As an armchair economist it’s always amusing to hear people ranting on about “Big Oil” presumably vs those “mom and pop” offshore drilling and tar sand upgrader projects we all reminesce about. Since the tar sands belong to “the people” perhaps a compromise can be reached whereby for every 100lbs of tar sand mined by [...]