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Perhaps only a blogger (and then maybe only one without a girlfriend) would read his own archives, but that’s what I’m doing right now. Fixing stuff, and trying to recapture.
So far, I’ve discovered that I need to dig out my sense of humor and then hope Paul Mirecki starts flapping his gums again. Developing…

Man, turn your back for three days and it all goes CRAZY.
Sean Gleeson’s Mirecki thread gets some belated delusional ranting that is truly hilarious, and must be seen to be believed. It’s great. And, Andrew Sullivan apparently moved to Kansas (“evil Bush MADE ME HATE HIM!“) and took up residence with poo-flinging, non-grooming Gage [...]

The KU Religious Studies department has mailed its supporters and donors a postcard repudiating the intemperate remarks its former chairman, Paul Mirecki, made in various e-mails and postings to the Internet, which you can read here.
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My comment on The Politburo Diktat’s Mirecki post:
I’ll set the odds at 10:3 in favor of having happened just as it’s been reported. It is plausible that there could have been another reason for the beating (as [comment] #4 proffers [see post]), but I don’t think Mirecki is that cool (as evidence, I cite his [...]

Josh Rosenau, five days ago:
…I said that one of TfK’s guiding principles is “People are smart.” [Lawrence.com interviewer Sarah] Smarsh stopped me and commented that I was the first person she’d interviewed who said that. I may or may not have been talking about creationists at the moment, but I think the point is well [...]

The Paul Mirecki class flap at the University of Kansas (which may or may not have escalated into an aggravated battery, see here) illustrates the danger of allowing special-interest groups to define the meaning of language as receivers rather than the speakers of that language.
This tactic, of course, has been used to devastating effect on [...]

» John Cole is right on all counts in this post on Saddam’s trial.
» Ken Wheaton writes a long-overdue letter to the Atlantic Monthly.
» Rachel Sawyer of Tinkerty-Tonk brings to light statements that recast anti-American pronouncements in human rights cases.
» Iowahawk on Paul Mirecki.
» A while back, a commenter here claimed that “intelligent design” [...]