Miscellaneous Stuff

Two things:

From a column titled, "The intelligent design bogeyman" --

Don't take my word for it. Consider the words of Darwinist Richard Lewontin of Harvard. "Our willingness," confessed Lewontin, "to accept scientific claims that are against common sense is the key to understanding the real struggle between science and the supernatural. We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfill many of its extravagant promises of health and life, in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for the unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a prior commitment to materialism. … materialism is absolute for we cannot allow a divine foot in the door."

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/davidlimbaugh/dl20050805.shtml

I always kinda-sort suspected as much.

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From the column you pointed me to today, where the author was suggesting that the free-wheeling world of unstructured startups was the preferred model. One thing that struck me was that there are many people who simply can't operate in an unstructured environment. To some degree I am like that ... working from home has exposed this to me. So while it may be true that the office model he deplores has its downsides, for many it's a necessity -- a needed physical separation of work and home and a place where they can find comfort in the structure and routine.