Random links
- Amish Technology
- "Until recently, I believed that the Amish had simply decided one day in the 19th century to cease all progress—to draw the line and go no further. The line seemed quite arbitrary to me. Why the 19th century instead of the 16th, the 12th, or the 1st? But while their appearance and lifestyle appears to be a 19th-century agrarian one, I was more or less completely wrong about everything else."
- Narnia Invaded: How the New Films Subvert Lewis’s Hierarchical World
- The basic argument of this article is that C.S. Lewis saw hierarchy as a positive thing in the world, when properly done, but that the movies treat any hierarchy as a bad thing in which people must question authority and with the idea that the authorities are always out solely for their own good: "They are essentially admitting that they understand nothing about power other than that it is meant to make other people do what you want them to do."
- University Insiders: Illegal Immigrants Get Affirmative Action
- This strikes me as a rather crazy idea
- Satellite Images of North Korea Prison Camps Find 200,000 Living as Slaves
- Is there any good solution to this? What can the west do?