stone tablets

Moses

If Moses supposedly led the slaves out of Egypt, and was given the ten commandments on the depictions of the stone tablets usually numbered with roman numerals? What language did Moses speak?

Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn RIP, 1918-2008

The privilege of knowing those who forged our age is often the consequence of an accidental crossing of the paths. In my case, undeserved luck allowed me to encounter Alexandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn...

The Year of the Long Knives: A Postscript

Here are some observations I did not think appropriate to include in Part IV of these commentaries on Barack Obama, or which I omitted for length considerations.In the New York Magazine article,...

EFF Wants To Tack 'Fair Use Principles' Onto Studios' Content Guidelines

Last week, we wrote about how the big studios, along with some smaller user-generated content sites had put together a bunch of meaningless guidelines for how "user generated content" sites should...

Bone-picking bone picking

 So, I’ve got a bone to pick with the Old Testament (who doesn’t? The Old Testament even has problems with the Old Testament, lest we forget that embarrassing Ark incident where God was so...

A Plea From a CEO Who Happens to Blog

One of my favorite blogs is that of Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz. But the author clearly doesn’t want to be known as a “CEO blogger”. His post “The Internet vs....

‘History’s Shortest Geological Column’

Russel Seitz offers at the Adamant ‘Deep Time For Dummies’, ‘Biblically Correct Geochronology’, based on ‘the addition of Begats by eminent 17th century divine ...

How Sabermetrics Helps Build a Better Ballgame

It's been several months since Murray Chass woke up one morning and decided to devote the last six paragraphs of his column to criticizing Baseball Prospectus. As I replied at that time, what most...

Laws Reflect a Society

Laws Reflect a Society By Kirsten Anderberg (www.kirstenanderberg.com) It is amazing how much you can tell about a society from its laws. Laws give us a glimpse into social order from eras and...