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The West Speaks
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Mohammed and Charlemagne Revisited: The History of a Controversy
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Why the West is Best: A Muslim Apostate's Defense of Liberal Democracy
Ibn Warraq |
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Anything Goes
by Theodore Dalrymple |
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Karimi Hotel
De Nidra Poller |
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The Left is Seldom Right
by Norman Berdichevsky |
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Allah is Dead: Why Islam is Not a Religion
by Rebecca Bynum |
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Virgins? What Virgins?: And Other Essays
by Ibn Warraq |
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An Introduction to Danish Culture
by Norman Berdichevsky |
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The New Vichy Syndrome:
by Theodore Dalrymple |
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Jihad and Genocide
by Richard L. Rubenstein |
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Second Opinion
by Theodore Dalrymple |
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Not With a Bang But a Whimper: The Politics and Culture of Decline
by Theodore Dalrymple |
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In Praise of Prejudice: The Necessity of Preconceived Ideas
by Theodore Dalrymple |
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Defending The West:
by Ibn Warraq |
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Nations, Language and Citizenship:
by Norman Berdichevsky |
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Romancing Opiates
by Theodore Dalrymple |
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Which Koran?
by Ibn Warraq |
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Our Culture, What's Left of It
by Theodore Dalrymple |
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What The Koran Really Says
by Ibn Warraq |
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Life at the Bottom
by Theodore Dalrymple |
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The Origins of the Koran
by Ibn Warraq |
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Why I Am Not Muslim
by Ibn Warraq |
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Spanish Vignettes: An Offbeat Look Into Spain's Culture, Society & History
by Norman Berdichevsky |
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Leaving Islam
Edited by Ibn Warraq |
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The Danish-German Border Dispute, 1815-2001: Aspects of Cultural and Demographic Politics
by Norman Berdichevsky |
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What's Love Got to Do with It?: Emotions and Relationships in Pop Songs
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Here are the Blogs in the z - Mark Butterworth category.
Tuesday, 14 November 2006
A Good Year - a Non-Potent Potable
Those who love Russell Crowe will forgive him anything, including this pleasant but thin romantic comedy (which has no comedy in it). Setting is nice, the ambience relaxed, the conflict non-existent. Wait for DVD. ...Read More...
Posted on 11/14/2006 5:03 PM by Mark Butterworth
Tuesday, 14 November 2006
Casino Royale
To purists of 007 and his card game, you will find they have changed the game from Baccarat to Texas Hold 'Em. They did this no doubt for the reason my daughter exclaimed, "Hey, I know how this game is played."Daniel Craig is undoubtedly the best Bond ever and this movie is a superb re-imagining ...Read More...
Posted on 11/14/2006 2:33 PM by Mark Butterworth
Thursday, 9 November 2006
Go Ahead, Make My Day
Michelle Malkin reports about Dems who seek to impeach Bush.Funny. I really wouldn't mind if they did at this point. It's not like he's actually a Republican or a conservative. I guess he's some sort of Christian, but I couldn't tell you what kind. ...Read More...
Posted on 11/09/2006 1:35 PM by Mark Butterworth
Tuesday, 7 November 2006
Babel - Book of Bad Choices
Screened (that’s what we film critics call getting into a movie in advance for free) Babel last night. It is this year’s Crash. That is, we’re all interconnected and we’re all suffering. (Actually, you could read it as a book of bad choices people make.)Afterwards another critic ...Read More...
Posted on 11/07/2006 1:54 PM by Mark Butterworth
Friday, 3 November 2006
Hypocrisy
Dennis Prager has the proper understanding of hypocrisy. I'm sick to death of liberals and lefties pointing out every conservative or Christian's fall from grace as hypocrisy.No such thing. A man who fails to meet his own standards of moral behavior is not a hypocrite. He's merely a momentary failure. ...Read More...
Posted on 11/03/2006 9:01 PM by Mark Butterworth
Friday, 3 November 2006
Derb's Borat
Part of my motivation for non-reviewing Borat was reading Derb's excited desire to see the movie. The man who proclaims that Pop Culture is Filth seemed an odd bird to want to run to the cinema to catch Cohen's Cretan Bull in a china shop movie.I am relieved to see that Derb found it underwhelming. ...Read More...
Posted on 11/03/2006 8:50 PM by Mark Butterworth
Monday, 30 October 2006
Derbyshire's Mysterianism
John has a basic problem as a Mysterian. A man can say, I don’t know God. But how does he say, I know that I can’t know God?Isn’t the defining problem - how do I learn (or know) the Truth about anything and everything? My experience is that people who sincerely want to know, hunger ...Read More...
Posted on 10/30/2006 2:00 PM by Mark Butterworth
Saturday, 28 October 2006
Same Sex Attraction? Think again.
Fascinating article on homosexuality at MercatorNet with a psychiatrist who specializes in the field. He points to simple things like the lack of eye-hand coordination in young boys as a precursor to adolescent same sex attraction and about the effeminate little boy: “there is the issue of gender ...Read More...
Posted on 10/28/2006 2:30 PM by Mark Butterworth
Saturday, 28 October 2006
Goose and Gander?
In a sermon during Ramadan Sheikh Taj Aldin al-Hilali, Australia's most prominent Muslim cleric, said that women invite rape by not covering themselves head to toe:
"If you take out uncovered meat and place it outside ... and the cats come to eat it ... whose fault is it, the cats' or the ...Read More...
Posted on 10/28/2006 1:52 PM by Mark Butterworth
Tuesday, 24 October 2006
Lead in the water pipes killed the Roman Empire, didn't it?
A new study shows a worrying link between poor sperm and the number of hours a day that a man uses his mobile phone.Sperm counts among British men have fallen by 29 per cent over the past decade, a drop which has also been blamed on increasing obesity, smoking, stress, pollution and 'gender-bending' ...Read More...
Posted on 10/24/2006 1:22 AM by Mark Butterworth
Tuesday, 10 October 2006
Serene as can be
The Derb may be banned from discussing that other sci-fi show at The Corner, but if it is permitted here, I must say I am in complete disagreement with JD about it. It is much better if one first watches the movie, Serenity, than the series, Firefly. The movie is superior drama and adventure, but the ...Read More...
Posted on 10/10/2006 3:13 PM by Mark Butterworth
Tuesday, 10 October 2006
Tunguska Revisited
For those worrying about the next asteroid to hit Earth, these two articles on the Tunguska bolide (an exploding asteroid) will surprise.Electro-physical phenomena was experienced in the region in advance of the event, and the event itself left many mysteries that only plasma physics currently explains. ...Read More...
Posted on 10/10/2006 2:46 PM by Mark Butterworth
Monday, 9 October 2006
Moxie it is!
I found it! At my local gourmet store. The beverage Moxie! I tried it. I think I might even like it. It tastes like a combination of licorice and birch or root beer. I can see how one might like it having grown up with it, but otherwise it's an acquired taste.It is a rather odd flavor and as I drank ...Read More...
Posted on 10/09/2006 5:09 PM by Mark Butterworth
Monday, 2 October 2006
Atavism
I despise Proust for no other reason than the fact that every time someone eats an old favorite dinner or dessert, they quote Proust and his Madeleines about conjuring up their childhood.Nevertheless, I have found myself in the last few months buying fizzy drinks different from the Coke I usually fueled ...Read More...
Posted on 10/02/2006 2:23 AM by Mark Butterworth
Saturday, 23 September 2006
The Way We Live Now #101
The Washington Times reports an increase in West Nile Virus cases:Forty-one states and the District have reported 2,171 illnesses from West Nile virus so far this year, 74 of which have been fatal -- setting the stage for a likely increase in new cases compared with 2005, federal health officials say.West ...Read More...
Posted on 09/23/2006 12:25 AM by Mark Butterworth
Tuesday, 19 September 2006
Our mighty leader
A conservative talk show host, while introducing Ann Coulter at a event spoke about a meeting that was had with Bush:"He described what he said was an off-the-record session with Bush and a gaggle of radio right-wingers, including Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham.
Bush told them "we'll lose" ...Read More...
Posted on 09/19/2006 3:31 AM by Mark Butterworth
Saturday, 16 September 2006
Waiting for the moment
Last evening I drove a few blocks from my home to the levee above the American River to take some pictures of a nice sunset I saw developing in the sky. The lovely parkway along the river is popular for walking dogs, biking, and jogging.As I stood there waiting for the orange sky in the west begin to ...Read More...
Posted on 09/16/2006 3:29 PM by Mark Butterworth
Saturday, 16 September 2006
Clear Thinking at the White House
Radio talk show host and film critic, Michael Medved, met with Pres. Bush yesterday with a number of other people for an informal Q & A at the White House. In response to the question of illegal aliens, Bush said he understood people were impassioned about the issue. He said when he was governor ...Read More...
Posted on 09/16/2006 12:36 PM by Mark Butterworth
Thursday, 14 September 2006
Defense Dept. Isn't Serious
Drudge links to a report that YouTube, the video website is posting videos of American soldiers being killed by snipers or IED from video shot by jihadis.How it is possible for an American company to be allowed to maintain such videos and allowed to operate astonishes me. This war is also a cyber war ...Read More...
Posted on 09/14/2006 1:44 AM by Mark Butterworth
Monday, 11 September 2006
The Path to 9/11
Having just watched ABC’s The Path to 9/11, I am both impressed and distressed by it. As a movie, it is rich in detail, texture, intelligence, but makes difficult demands upon the audience. It is everything that Syriana had hoped to be in its wildest dreams without being ridiculously partisan.It ...Read More...
Posted on 09/11/2006 1:19 AM by Mark Butterworth
Sunday, 10 September 2006
Bush and Khatami
Every week Bush just has to do or say something that lowers my opinion of him. After 9/11 he was at about 100% on my approval scale.Now he's into negative numbers. I keep hoping he'll climb up to around 25 -35% positive just so I can say those eight years and two votes weren't a complete waste, but ...Read More...
Posted on 09/10/2006 12:37 PM by Mark Butterworth
Friday, 8 September 2006
re: Swimming to Mecca
Yes, as a believing Christian, through the use of my time machine I've discovered there are lots of decent Carthaginians, Canaanites, and Aztecs. Not all of them sacrifice their children by tossing them into a fire, burying them under their front doors, or take thousands of people captured in war and ...Read More...
Posted on 09/08/2006 1:48 PM by Mark Butterworth
Friday, 8 September 2006
Star Trek's 40th anniversary
From The Times Online:
"it is also an occasion for lamentation, a time to reflect on the baleful effect the programme has had on the American mindset — namely Star Trek’s message of liberal imperialism, a philosophy that uncannily has since been realised in real life.
Rather ...Read More...
Posted on 09/08/2006 11:56 AM by Mark Butterworth
Friday, 25 August 2006
Heather Mac Donald�s Answers to Metaphysical Questions
Q: Why is there anything?
A: I don’t know and I don’t care.
Q: Where is the universe?
A: I don’t know and I don’t care.
Q: Why was I created only to be later killed?
A: I don’t know and I don’t care.
Q: What is Mind or Consciousness?
A: I don’t know and ...Read More...
Posted on 08/25/2006 5:47 PM by Mark Butterworth
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