Robert VerBruggen has a pretty shockingly unfair critique of a short book on creationism and evolution recently released by the National Academy of Sciences. First, he complains that the document, which is quite obviously meant as a basic primer for lay audiences, “makes a number of assertions that, simply put, no one seriously disputes.” Introductory […]

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This, from AmSpec‘s John Tabin, is pretty bogus: Re JGP’s comment: “Even if Paul doesn’t thrill you, whether it’s legitimate to lock him out is another question.” It probably wouldn’t be legitimate for the Republican party to do so; Paul is out-polling Thompson in New Hampshire, after all. The NH GOP was right to pull […]

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This thing needs a call-record feature. Because actually, between SMS, e-mail, and IM, almost the only time I actually make a voice telephone call is to conduct an interview.

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I’ve got a post on open social graphs over at Techdirt.

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I left a huge one out of my “shouldn’t the iPhone do this?” list: Podcast updates. I would probably listen to various NPR news podcasts on my iPod, except I’m lazy and don’t want to be bothered with remembering to update and sync whenever I’m about to go anywhere. So it would be ideal if […]

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Riffing on the post below, “Postmodern Conservative” James Poulos writes: In a world where libertarians are utterly doomed on the political front and turned loose with glee instead on the culture, the flattening out of local, particular political power — the inevitable result of sovereign individuality — drives prideful, envious democratic souls to the rational […]

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So—like about half of the human race, to judge by the subways last week—I got an iPhone for Christmas, and it is, in fact, roughly as awesome as advertised. But there are some weird little omissions—thinks that it seems obvious the phone should be able to do, and that, moreover, seem like they’d be pretty […]

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