tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-326362832024-03-14T05:45:45.406-04:00David's Secret BlogWe Wince At Every HitUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger820125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32636283.post-36508846878561281712020-07-04T14:46:00.001-04:002020-07-04T14:46:49.897-04:00The First DraftHe has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare of the Christian King of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where Men should be bought & sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or restrain this execrable commerce. And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he has obtruded them: thus paying off former crimes committed again the Liberties of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the lives of another.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32636283.post-43266550908819806672017-08-31T12:27:00.000-04:002017-08-31T12:27:34.481-04:00The Two Basic Questions Of Organization Science1. Why do organizations look so similar?<br /><br />2. Why do organizations look so different?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32636283.post-71739676995346014002017-08-31T12:13:00.002-04:002017-08-31T12:40:46.944-04:00Pumpkin Spice Does Not Contain PumpkinI'm the first to admit that this is an odd thing to be annoyed at (I'm thinking that the blog might just become a series of short posts about things that annoy me), but I find it very annoying when people confuse pumpkin with pumpkin spice. This time of year, it's hard to go a day without having to listen/read someone complaining about how there isn't any pumpkin in their pumpkin spice latte -- which isn't surprising because pumpkin spice does not contain pumpkin.<br><br>
Pumpkin spice is the spice that goes into pumpkin pie (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumpkin_pie_spice">Wikipedia on Pumpkin Spice</a>). It is a very familiar taste and -- thank God -- completely masks the taste of pumpkin. Not having pumpkin in your pumpkin spice latte/candle/air freshener/ice cream/whatever is the point -- a feature and not a bug.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32636283.post-55194298408721812312015-12-31T20:08:00.000-05:002015-12-31T20:08:01.364-05:00I Hate When People Ask Me What I'll Be Doing In Five YearsIt's not like I have 2020 vision.
(Got that in right under the wire.)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32636283.post-67287400515507692282015-12-22T13:38:00.000-05:002015-12-23T11:45:03.940-05:00Seasonal Tidings of Not-MiseryIn many ways, I live a blessed life. I'm healthy, I love my wife, my marriage is stable, we have economic and emotional security, my kids show every sign of turning out to be good people. I'm an American in the early 21st century, meaning that it's exceeding unlikely that my government is about to decide to kill me and everyone like me but might decide to take a little more of my money to give to other people. I like my job, my job seems to like me and what passes as oppression among my colleagues is that, four years from now, the college might decide not to give me a job for life but rather to only give me a terminal year of employment to find another job. Taking the long view I'm in the top 1% of the 1% of the 1% of everyone who ever lived. <br><br>
First world people look at my problems and say, "Dude! Please!"<br><br>
All of which is a preface to noting that grading really sucks.<br><br>
Over the holiday season and all of next year, may your biggest problems be no bigger than mine, which is to say -- in the context of human experience -- nothing much at all.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32636283.post-84003910654939789482015-07-06T13:06:00.003-04:002015-07-06T13:08:34.535-04:00The Greek Government's Strategy:<iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/upvZdVK913I" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32636283.post-39065408422612863542014-12-31T23:14:00.001-05:002014-12-31T23:14:47.880-05:00Happy New YearAs we enter 2015, we should expect that almost everything will get better in almost every measurable way, just as it did in 2014 and 2013 and almost every year since 1776.
We shall of course never speak of this again. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32636283.post-60094334375602839222014-12-24T23:11:00.001-05:002014-12-24T23:11:30.229-05:00Merry Sollstice and Happy Day-LengtheningAs we do most years, if it occurs to me, all of us here at the Secret Blog wish you and yours a happy day gathered around the ol'pagan symbol swapping the tokens of modern materialism.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32636283.post-58885965236167489662014-11-21T10:25:00.002-05:002014-11-21T10:25:53.771-05:00I Need an OpinionSo, as a Republican, a Constitutionalist, a Unitary Executive theorist, and pro-immigration conservative, what am I to make of President Obama's actions last night?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32636283.post-66907842941592662142014-10-28T11:15:00.001-04:002014-10-28T11:15:29.142-04:00The Course of Human EventsA comment over at Megan McArdle's Bloomberg blog got me wondering how many of the reasons given for rebelling against the King and declaring independence are also true today. So, with no further ado, the annotated causes of separation:
<blockquote>He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. I suppose this one is always true whenever the President vetoes a law (or Congress refuses to pass a law) that I believe is wholesome and necessary for the public good, like the "Give David $10 million a year for life law" that would contribute so much to the children. But in context I think it's fair to say that this is not a problem with our modern government. Our problem now is that they keep passing laws that torpedo the public good.</br></br>
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them. Nope.</br></br>
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only. Nope.</br></br>
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. If only.</br></br>
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. Nope.</br></br>
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within. Again, sounds pretty good.</br></br>
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands. Hmmm. Yes, I suppose, although the President is trying.</br></br>
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers. Filibuster, anyone?</br></br>
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. This one has pretty much been fixed for Article 3 judges, but now the government has established so-called "administrative law judges" who have an awful lot of power and are executive branch employees. I'm going to score this one a "yes."</br></br>
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. Worse than ever.</br></br>
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. Well, we have standing armies, but they are established with the consent of the legislature.</br></br>
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. No, with the possible exception of the Army Corps of Engineers, but that's not the Army and not a Corps.</br></br>
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation. Yes, actually.</br></br>
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us. Nope.</br></br>
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States. Nope.</br></br>
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world. Yep.</br></br>
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent. Nope, with some relatively minor exceptions (and arguably Obamacare, which is not a minor exception).</br></br>
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury. No, unless we count the pressure brought to bear on defendants to plead out, subject to harsher penalties after trial.</br></br>
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences. GUANTANOMO!</br></br>
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies. Perfidious Canada.</br></br>
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments. Yes. Why exactly should unelected federal bureaucrats have the ability to overturn state law?</br></br>
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. Yes, at times, but actually I'm ok with that.</br></br>
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. Only metaphorically, which doesn't really count.</br></br>
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. Ditto.</br></br>
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation. Certainly their are Democrats who would agree with this one. (Or would have, six years ago.)</br></br>
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands. No.</br></br>
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions. I'm tempted to make a joke about the Washington football team, but that would be in bad taste.</blockquote>
Not that bad, actually. I'm most surprised by the instances when I'm ok with our government acting like George III.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32636283.post-85006330468044508462014-09-06T09:49:00.002-04:002014-09-06T09:49:56.114-04:00You May Now Call Me Dr. CohenThough you needn't. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32636283.post-33606846063811815812014-08-27T12:33:00.001-04:002014-08-27T12:33:27.177-04:00I Know That There's A Lot Going On In The World Right Now ...But how is this not headline news across the internet:
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<a href="http://on.wsj.com/1syuKo2">Scientists Grow First Fully Functioning Organ From Scratch</a><b><b>
<iframe frameborder="0" scrolling="no" width="512" height="288" src="http://live.wsj.com/public/page/embed-65162FC0_AD48_410E_A5AD_9B12C2E77618.html"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32636283.post-76837998878825444602014-07-18T11:05:00.000-04:002014-07-18T11:05:40.673-04:00My Dissertation, In A Word Cloud<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSPsExhZVXg-kYcq-oqPQG5Wby6e_0ktqZnJPzsDxAqI6EJfkCc0oyK48s-VtFDNkiJ9hgZTld9d6seacjVIlecuy4ETenKW3zTHBbehveOQf0YlDMnXIh9jP5UZdSHUiTref18Q/s1600/dissertation+world+cloud+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSPsExhZVXg-kYcq-oqPQG5Wby6e_0ktqZnJPzsDxAqI6EJfkCc0oyK48s-VtFDNkiJ9hgZTld9d6seacjVIlecuy4ETenKW3zTHBbehveOQf0YlDMnXIh9jP5UZdSHUiTref18Q/s640/dissertation+world+cloud+2.jpg" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32636283.post-14304593248339032832014-07-01T10:36:00.001-04:002018-02-20T11:44:55.075-05:00Hobby Lobby Explicated<b></b>For some reason, people's inability to understand the Hobby Lobby case is bothering me more than people's general inability to understand SCOTUS decisions, so I thought I'd take a crack at setting out the court's reasoning.<br><br>
1. In the 90's, two Native Americans were fired from their job because they tested positive for the use of peyote.
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2. They applied for unemployment insurance and were denied because they were fired for good cause, having tested positive for using peyote.
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3. The Native Americans argued that denying them unemployment insurance burdened their exercise of their religion, which involved using peyote, and was thus unconstitutional under the First Amendment.
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4. The Supreme Court held that, if a law is generally applicable to everyone -- in context, if the law is not about religion -- then the Constitution does not give people any exemption even if that law burdens their religious beliefs. (That is, the Native Americans have to choose between their religious practice of using peyote and getting unemployment insurance.)
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5. Congress didn't like that result, and so it passed a law (the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA)) that said that there is an exception to any law of general application if it burdens a person's religious beliefs, unless the interest served by the law is compelling and imposes the least possible burden consistent with that compelling interest. "Person" is not defined in RFRA, but there's another statute that says, among other things, that whenever the word "person" is used in federal law, it includes corporations. RFRA also says that Congress can include a provision in any future statute saying that it is not subject to RFRA.
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6. 20 years later, Congress passed health care reform (HCR). There is no provision in HCR saying that RFRA doesn't apply.
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7. After HCR passed, the Department of Health and Human Services announced a regulation that requires all employer provided health insurance plans to cover the cost of 20 specific contraceptives.
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8. The owners of Hobby Lobby say that they are devout Christians and have a religious objection to providing health insurance that covers 4 of the 20 required contraceptives because those 4 could stop an embryo from implanting in the mother's womb and thus result in the death of the embryo, which they consider murder.
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9. Hobby Lobby claimed that HHS' regulation burdened its owners' religious beliefs by involving them (in their own opinion) in murder if they had to provide insurance covering the 4 specific contraceptives.
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10. The government claimed, first, that RFRA doesn't apply to for-profit corporations because they can't have religious beliefs and, second, that its regulation isn't a substantial burden.
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11. It is clear that RFRA applies to corporations and the government didn't argue otherwise. Among other things, churches are corporations and everyone agreed that a church could sue under RFRA.
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12. But can for-profit corporations have a religious belief? The government argued no. The Court held, yes. It had previously decided religious freedom cases brought by corporations; religious freedom cases brought by businesses, and religious freedom cases brought by business corporations (a Kosher butcher sued Massachusetts, arguing that it should not be subject to Massachusetts' Sunday closing law because it also had to be closed on Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath).
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13. The Court assumed that the government's interest in the HHS regulations was compelling because it held that it clearly wasn't the least restrictive regulation possible. HHS had exempted non-profit corporations from its regulation and the Court held that the least restrictive regulation possible would have exempted Hobby Lobby too.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32636283.post-4657940322192456632014-04-29T07:49:00.000-04:002014-04-29T07:49:15.820-04:00This Might Be The Most Pro-Gun Article Ever On Bloomberg <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-29/detroit-homeowners-gun-down-burglars-as-police-await-cars.html">Detroit Homeowners Gun Down Burglars as Police Await Cars</a>
By Chris Christoff
Apr 28, 2014 8:45 PM
<blockquote>Even as bankrupt Detroit’s residents have resorted to gunning down neighborhood burglars, its police await money for patrol cars, radios, armored vests and modern computers.<br><br>
Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr last month pledged $36.2 million for police from a $120 million loan from Barclays Plc approved by U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Stephen Rhodes.... The loan was obtained this month and will be spent as purchases and bids are processed, said city Chief Financial Officer John Hill in an interview. He said police vehicles must be ordered from manufacturers and outfitted with special equipment. In the meantime, many Detroit residents are fending for themselves.<br><br>
Craig last month defended citizens’ right to shoot if attacked. Indeed, eight times this year residents killed intruders. In the most recent incident, gunshots from a homeowner April 17 interrupted a break-in and mortally wounded the driver of a getaway SUV that crashed into a house across the street, according to police. Two suspects fled on foot.</blockquote>
Every distopian future needs an armed citizenry.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32636283.post-10103279072756289402014-04-11T18:33:00.000-04:002014-04-11T18:33:15.583-04:00Now, that's creepy.<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/L1_GeEegSIpyaRF0vD2uO6yIQFnHQ9NIHybZ8RtBGeH_VqEGlbFS7VrN_nLKlt_VWg=s400" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/L1_GeEegSIpyaRF0vD2uO6yIQFnHQ9NIHybZ8RtBGeH_VqEGlbFS7VrN_nLKlt_VWg=s400" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32636283.post-49871136523176547912014-03-15T11:28:00.000-04:002014-03-15T11:28:11.446-04:00Separated At Birth?<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ3BkbZVeqClEtKXJUqmil2KqzzHP_wuAtKz3TOjD8mOEbmHOigpfmWLVxZUQhus3B__o4m-pm8-Q6PJs17B32QfAgnJ5oXXeHMGmzemy8i8yC9GYWIOVX8DiF7XWnA8R7VTQnaA/s1600/IMG_0036.JPG" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ3BkbZVeqClEtKXJUqmil2KqzzHP_wuAtKz3TOjD8mOEbmHOigpfmWLVxZUQhus3B__o4m-pm8-Q6PJs17B32QfAgnJ5oXXeHMGmzemy8i8yC9GYWIOVX8DiF7XWnA8R7VTQnaA/s320/IMG_0036.JPG" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz0DL7J-b8OfwDJW2Y6nyhEjUUDXU_RJGak8WbQQxaJSVz1aUIz5Wu1ZOp43vXk2nDxHH0zZa7nnfJj00Jw2xwkoqKur0M6ADLMW_blE3mxxgugoDuaGrkFYKF7ZPEjZuifoUeHg/s1600/IMG_0035.JPG" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz0DL7J-b8OfwDJW2Y6nyhEjUUDXU_RJGak8WbQQxaJSVz1aUIz5Wu1ZOp43vXk2nDxHH0zZa7nnfJj00Jw2xwkoqKur0M6ADLMW_blE3mxxgugoDuaGrkFYKF7ZPEjZuifoUeHg/s320/IMG_0035.JPG" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32636283.post-19349871200309807452014-03-15T11:15:00.000-04:002014-03-15T11:15:00.377-04:00The Cake Is A Lie<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis9YB35gtWriu3u0_UtwN5NTMAOeTjDiVXZiO-AuntIKq0-TKSc_0XUMbHiqMaoWge0NcqJ0sTDr1ka1RGv6OUsgQVJN8k3glqi_Id6d5ixod1gvxoF9AZpa6cKpcrZ9tNXOGo_w/s1600/20140315_150440000_iOS.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis9YB35gtWriu3u0_UtwN5NTMAOeTjDiVXZiO-AuntIKq0-TKSc_0XUMbHiqMaoWge0NcqJ0sTDr1ka1RGv6OUsgQVJN8k3glqi_Id6d5ixod1gvxoF9AZpa6cKpcrZ9tNXOGo_w/s320/20140315_150440000_iOS.jpg" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32636283.post-36580270204307447802014-03-07T13:11:00.002-05:002014-03-07T13:11:50.647-05:00Every Time I Think I'm Out, They Drag Me Back In.The Canadians, that is.
Apparently, <a href="http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/03/05/your-porn-is-not-canadian-enough-crtc-warns-erotica-channels/?utm_content=bufferd10b1&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer">three Canadian erotica channels are in trouble with the government and in danger of losing their license because they don't air enough Canadian content</a>. Because the channels air 24 hours a day, they need 8.5 hours of Canadian porn -- which they plan to get by looping the same hour of Canadian porn 9 times a day. I would lard this thread with Canadian jokes, but the commenters over at the National Post have done the work for me.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32636283.post-90243537275259628522013-08-06T09:25:00.002-04:002013-08-06T09:25:47.199-04:00The Ultimate First World Problem<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/08/it-now-appears-possible-to-hack-a-fancy-japanese-toilet/278322/">Your fancy toilet can be hacked.</a>
This appears to result entirely from the failure of the manufacturer to take any precautions against hacking, perhaps unable to imagine the temptations of toilet hacking.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32636283.post-59163494581792808822013-07-31T11:37:00.003-04:002013-07-31T11:37:40.131-04:00In The Cool v. Creepy War Over New Technology,<a href="http://www.thetileapp.com/?utm_source=fnws&utm_medium=ar&utm_content=ad2&utm_campaign=rtrgt">This</a> lands in the cool side, but only just.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32636283.post-56148961050294971692013-07-29T10:11:00.001-04:002013-07-29T10:11:13.256-04:00Oh This Modern LifeWhen sitting at my computer at home, I'm surrounded by my iPad, my iPhone, my Kindle and, of course, my computer (two screens, no waiting). When an email arrives, it's like high noon in a clock shop.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32636283.post-52620118851692027302013-05-19T12:09:00.002-04:002013-05-19T12:09:49.265-04:00Word of the DayToday's word is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisgender">Cisgender</a>, the opposite of transgender, defined as "types of gender identity where an individual's self-perception of their gender matches the sex they were assigned at birth", which hints at the problem.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32636283.post-85926994169981868622013-03-28T17:25:00.003-04:002013-03-28T17:28:03.246-04:00We Interupt this Blog Vacation...For reasons that will be obvious to longtime readers (if there's anyone out there still).<p><p>
<a href="http://reason.com/24-7/2013/03/28/evolution-may-be-more-random-than-previo">Evolution May Be More Random Than Previously Believed</a>
<blockquote>Some ecologists say the theory needs an update. They’ve proposed a new dynamic driving the emergence of new species, one that doesn’t involve adaptations or survival of the fittest.<p><p>
Give evolution enough time and space, they say, and new species can just happen. Speciation might not only be an evolutionary consequence of fitness differences and natural selection, but a property intrinsic to evolution, just as all matter has gravity.</blockquote>
For reasons that remain unclear, they don't seem to be calling it the Cohen Theory of Evolution.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32636283.post-60858624524459707242012-12-25T11:45:00.002-05:002012-12-25T11:45:50.640-05:00Happy Solstice to AllAs we do most years, if it occurs to me, all of us here at the Secret Blog wish you and yours a happy day gathered around the ol'pagan symbol swapping the tokens of modern materialism.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0