~C4Chaos

"I congratulate YouTube on an excellent decision. Pat Condell is hard-hitting, but always quietly reasonable in tone. That some people say they are 'offended' by something is never a good reason for censoring it. Incitement to violence is. Pat Condell never incites violence against anybody. He always signs off with "Peace" and he means it." - ~C4Chaos via Bookmarklet

Sharia law is absolutely unacceptable in democratic nations. But this guy is going to far when he blames the decision to allow Sharia law on liberals. I don't know any progressives who support Sharia law or would defend it. - mel maverick mcbride

Condel is trying to point out that liberal ideals such as pluralism, diversity, multiculturalism are the principles that give cover to extreme and outdated religious views. but yeah, to put the blame solely on liberals is a bit of a stretch, although there is some partial truth to it. that said, i think Ayaan Hirsi Ali's take on multiculturalism is more level-headed - http://www.reason.com/news/sho... - ~C4Chaos

can be spun as a point against immigration - Gregory Lent

The guy is an ASS but he has a few good points. - tom sparks

"Integral Research (IR) is an emerging approach to mixed methods that is explicitly grounded in Integral Theory and makes use of its post-metaphysical position and its practice of Integral Methodological Pluralism to provide a multi-method approach that weaves together 1st-person, 2nd-person, and 3rd-person methods. IR makes use of multiple methods (qualitative and quantitative) as a way of exploring the multi-faceted and multi-dimensional nature of complex phenomena." - ~C4Chaos via Bookmarklet

how about simply objective, subjective, unknowable? what is post-metaphysics? ID? - Scott Moskowitz

the need for academic "validation" in the integral movement shows up sometimes - Gregory Lent

"Ayaan Hirsi Ali on Islam, immigration, civil liberties, and the fate of the West." - ~C4Chaos via Bookmarklet

Bloom rocks, and that book is brilliant! - William Harryman

He sure likes to hear himself talk. I would be more comfortable if he wasn't so willing to sacrifice our current world on the principle that everything must adapt so why bother. There's a bit of Adaptive Darwinism here. Me as a specialization isn't willing to die for the generalization. Society can choose to expend the energy to save roses and coastal lands, even if the earth has experienced a 140+ extinction events. We differ from bacteria not only in our ability to leave earth, but to preserve it as well. - todd

"Welcome to Silicon Valley, where locals view Washington with distrust (except when lobbying for more H-1B visas), and the unifying attitude can be summarized in five words: You get what you deserve. Failure is considered as integral to creation as success here, and it's expected that both be allowed to take their natural course. But the collapse of Wall Street is clearly more than an ideological matter. For all of the talk in the Valley about wanting to be left alone, the financial crisis makes it clear that the Valley isn't an island. After all, a fifth of all IT spending comes from the financial sector." - ~C4Chaos via Bookmarklet

"(Fortune) -- Warren Buffett suggested Thursday that the U.S. Treasury team with private investors to buy the distressed mortgage assets at the center of the controversial $700 billion Wall Street bailout, and said the price tag of the rescue plan may have to rise. Buffett, the chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A), called the problems facing world markets "unprecedented" and warned of a "disaster" if Congress does not move faster to shore up the economy. "We had an economic Pearl Harbor hit," he said during an appearance at FORTUNE's Most Powerful Women Summit in Carlsbad, Calif. "For a couple of weeks we've been arguing about who's at fault [and] fooling around while things have gotten a lot worse."" - ~C4Chaos via Bookmarklet

"The Sadness of Conservatism Jonah finds the culprit in the financial crisis: government! (09:29) Does Washington create the lobbyists who corrupt it? (08:51) Peter defends lobbyists (03:10) Is Big Business an exclusively right-wing thing? (07:48) The depressing state of modern conservatism (04:33) Is Bush the culmination of conservative principles? (11:20)" - ~C4Chaos via Bookmarklet

got my copy and reading it at the moment. lovin' it. - ~C4Chaos

"My opinion, for what it's worth: to say that women have not been oppressed by men because they are not "fewer, dumber, or weaker" than men is just plain silly. Warren Farrell is full of partial truths that he suggests are the whole truth -- as much as that is true, he should be regarded as interesting but possibly harmful to the cause of a mature and compassionate masculinity." - ~C4Chaos via Bookmarklet

"Now that the government has proposed bold solutions to the financial meltdown, and also rejected them, I am digging my underground bunker and hoarding canned goods. I call that "doing my part." I wasn't truly scared until I saw on the Internet that Michael Moore has waded into the economic discussion. When citizens start getting their economic guidance from Michael Moore, well, that is a harbinger of doom. But the worst part is that I'm not entirely sure he's wrong. Stay with me on this." - ~C4Chaos via Bookmarklet

Great questions - Michael J. Cohen (mjc)

"Sen. John McCain and his Republican allies are readying a newly aggressive assault on Sen. Barack Obama's character, believing that to win in November they must shift the conversation back to questions about the Democrat's judgment, honesty and personal associations, several top Republicans said." - ~C4Chaos via Bookmarklet

tiresome - Gregory Lent

"Three centuries of progressive thinkers reveal that evolution has always been a fundamentally spiritual concept." - ~C4Chaos via Bookmarklet