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It’s now quiet time at old TAM HQ. Some retro/hanta/nairo/quasi-virus has me down for the count. It’s hard to write something borderline interesting when all I want to do is crawl back into my bed and sleep. Yet I pulled it off! That’s dedication. Here’s some reading and watching to keep you occupied until that fuzzy feeling leaves my head:
- Conservative writer Heather MacDonald defends conservative atheists:
I have heard it said in the last six years that what makes conservatives superior to liberals is their religious faith—as if morality is impossible without religion and everything is indeed permitted, as the cliché has it. I wonder whether religious conservatives can spot the atheists among them by their deeds or, for that matter, by their political positions. I very much doubt it. Skeptical conservatives do not look into the abyss when they make ethical choices. Their moral sense is as secure as a believer’s. They do not need God or the Christian Bible to discover the golden rule and see themselves in others.
- Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs Cully Stimson apologized for complaining “the major law firms in this country . . . are out there representing detainees.” Pro bono work during wartime is not unprecedented.
- I can’t tell if it’s just make-work news to fill in the time or if there’s serious concern about a fourth season of Battlestar Galactica.
- English First has an online campaign opposing Senator Mel Martinez as RNC Chairman. They don’t like him on illegal immigrant amnesty, on Puerto Rican statehood, his friendship with Sen. John McCain, and obviously English as America’s official language. Me, I don’t like him because I don’t think he’ll do much as chairman.
- Michelle Malkin files her first video from Baghdad.
A BSG cancellation wouldn’t be the first time a cancellation stunned the hell out of me or completely perplexed me (The WB cancelling Angel when it was one of their highest-rated shows…WTF?), but this would take the cake. Everything else i’ve ever seen on Sci-Fi excepting the new Dr. Who is total garbage. Why they would cancel something that is so so SO far and away better than the rest of the channel’s programming would confuse the hell out of me, but then, FOX cancelled Firefly, Wonderfalls, and Arrested Development, so who said network programming made sense?