Comments for the greycat blog http://blog.greycat.org news and things from greycat.org Thu, 04 Dec 2008 05:30:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 Comment on Most-read this week: Alexander Pope by Ghost Dogg http://blog.greycat.org/2007/10/18/most-read-this-week-alexander-pope/#comment-2533 Ghost Dogg Sat, 22 Nov 2008 17:08:27 +0000 http://blog.greycat.org/2007/10/18/most-read-this-week-alexander-pope/#comment-2533 The Link attach'd will take thee to a site That mimicks Pope in all it dares to Write. Tho' Wit and Judgement far behind are left, It's hoped that Pope thy Cholick Mood will heft. Of cult'ral Topicks high and low it sings; Pierian Springs and You Tube Things it clings. So, fly to <a href="http://www.valleyoftheshadwells.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">Valley of the Shadwells</a> soon-- Thy clicks, my woful Hackny couplets' boon! The Link attach’d will take thee to a site
That mimicks Pope in all it dares to Write.
Tho’ Wit and Judgement far behind are left,
It’s hoped that Pope thy Cholick Mood will heft.
Of cult’ral Topicks high and low it sings;
Pierian Springs and You Tube Things it clings.
So, fly to Valley of the Shadwells soon–
Thy clicks, my woful Hackny couplets’ boon!

]]> Comment on The BBC charges me £139.50 a year for the privilege of being treated like an idiot by cassandrina http://blog.greycat.org/2008/11/17/the-bbc-charges-me-13950-a-year-for-the-privilege-of-being-treated-like-an-idiot/#comment-2422 cassandrina Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:44:17 +0000 http://blog.greycat.org/2008/11/17/the-bbc-charges-me-13950-a-year-for-the-privilege-of-being-treated-like-an-idiot/#comment-2422 Throw out your TV and do not pay the bbc! I go to the pub for important sports programmes. For music Radio 3 or my own. For very biased news Radio 4 but not for long as my anger grows. Then their is periodicals I trust, bbc world, and the internet. Throw out your TV and do not pay the bbc!
I go to the pub for important sports programmes.
For music Radio 3 or my own.
For very biased news Radio 4 but not for long as my anger grows. Then their is periodicals I trust, bbc world, and the internet.

]]> Comment on Birmingham ban anathematizes atheism by Leila http://blog.greycat.org/2008/07/29/birmingham-ban-anathematizes-atheism/#comment-1341 Leila Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:34:33 +0000 http://blog.greycat.org/2008/07/29/birmingham-ban-anathematizes-atheism/#comment-1341 I understood what you meant I understood what you meant

]]> Comment on Birmingham ban anathematizes atheism by greycat http://blog.greycat.org/2008/07/29/birmingham-ban-anathematizes-atheism/#comment-1336 greycat Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:03:39 +0000 http://blog.greycat.org/2008/07/29/birmingham-ban-anathematizes-atheism/#comment-1336 <p>You seem to feel that I am not addressing apples effectively in my post, when it was in fact about oranges.</p> You seem to feel that I am not addressing apples effectively in my post, when it was in fact about oranges.

]]> Comment on Birmingham ban anathematizes atheism by Samuel Skinner http://blog.greycat.org/2008/07/29/birmingham-ban-anathematizes-atheism/#comment-1331 Samuel Skinner Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:24:40 +0000 http://blog.greycat.org/2008/07/29/birmingham-ban-anathematizes-atheism/#comment-1331 Of course it is made up! But God was guiding the person who was making it up. And since you can't see him, how can you decide which religion he was behind? Honestly, if you tossed out "made up" religions, you'd have to dump them ALL. Of course it is made up! But God was guiding the person who was making it up. And since you can’t see him, how can you decide which religion he was behind?

Honestly, if you tossed out “made up” religions, you’d have to dump them ALL.

]]> Comment on Birmingham ban anathematizes atheism by greycat http://blog.greycat.org/2008/07/29/birmingham-ban-anathematizes-atheism/#comment-1330 greycat Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:08:02 +0000 http://blog.greycat.org/2008/07/29/birmingham-ban-anathematizes-atheism/#comment-1330 The point I was seeking to make is that something seems a little wrong when the president of the National Secular Society is describing any religion as 'legitimate', particularly when the religion concerned is as patently faked-up as 'wicca'. The point I was seeking to make is that something seems a little wrong when the president of the National Secular Society is describing any religion as ‘legitimate’, particularly when the religion concerned is as patently faked-up as ‘wicca’.

]]> Comment on Birmingham ban anathematizes atheism by Brian Westley http://blog.greycat.org/2008/07/29/birmingham-ban-anathematizes-atheism/#comment-1328 Brian Westley Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:43:55 +0000 http://blog.greycat.org/2008/07/29/birmingham-ban-anathematizes-atheism/#comment-1328 How do you distinguish "made up tosh" from all the other religions? Walking on water, the dead rising again, and multi-armed blue goddesses AREN'T made up tosh? How do you distinguish “made up tosh” from all the other religions? Walking on water, the dead rising again, and multi-armed blue goddesses AREN’T made up tosh?

]]> Comment on Mecca Time: Islamic science meets Time Cube? by projects http://blog.greycat.org/2008/04/22/mecca-time-islamic-science-meets-time-cube/#comment-918 projects Mon, 05 May 2008 01:40:05 +0000 http://blog.greycat.org/2008/04/22/mecca-time-islamic-science-meets-time-cube/#comment-918 Cool post! Keep on going... Cool post! Keep on going…

]]> Comment on The New Yorker hearts Nadia by NY http://blog.greycat.org/2008/04/23/the-new-yorker-hearts-nadia/#comment-916 NY Sun, 04 May 2008 00:12:07 +0000 http://blog.greycat.org/2008/04/23/the-new-yorker-hearts-nadia/#comment-916 Kramer's article took away all the respect I had for The New Yorker. Not because I politically object to her views, but because of the dismal job she did discussing the case, being so obvious in her sympathy of El Haj's side without even bothering to explain what her critics' points were. Hinting that Columbia preferred to silence El Haj so that Jews in the City would help it to expand its campus on the expense of poor Morningside Heights residents was a particularly elegant touch. When certain parts of academia lost touch with reality and will to pursue truth, they simply stopped mattering in the real world. The same goes for certain parts of the media. Kramer’s article took away all the respect I had for The New Yorker. Not because I politically object to her views, but because of the dismal job she did discussing the case, being so obvious in her sympathy of El Haj’s side without even bothering to explain what her critics’ points were. Hinting that Columbia preferred to silence El Haj so that Jews in the City would help it to expand its campus on the expense of poor Morningside Heights residents was a particularly elegant touch.

When certain parts of academia lost touch with reality and will to pursue truth, they simply stopped mattering in the real world. The same goes for certain parts of the media.

]]> Comment on The New Yorker hearts Nadia by Sammy Benoit http://blog.greycat.org/2008/04/23/the-new-yorker-hearts-nadia/#comment-901 Sammy Benoit Thu, 24 Apr 2008 05:32:33 +0000 http://blog.greycat.org/2008/04/23/the-new-yorker-hearts-nadia/#comment-901 When I was in contact with Mr. Esses after his article in Nation, he admitted to me that he did not read El Haj's book. After reading Ms Kramer's peice I doubt she has either When I was in contact with Mr. Esses after his article in Nation, he admitted to me that he did not read El Haj’s book. After reading Ms Kramer’s peice I doubt she has either

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