Blair Lovern

• 2 years, 8 months ago
  Blair Lovern's comment on:

  SMU Science departments opposing intelligent design conference

  Chad, honestly, what is the point of doing good? If there are no consequences (sure, you could hurt someone - big deal, it doesn't matter) then why aren't more people just saying, screw it, I'll do whatever the hell I want. How does science explain morality?

  And if life is just a big mistake, then why do the people who support evolution say anything else that tries to explain our existence is ridiculous - why do I have to believe them when their whole line of reasoning is from a mistake to begin with? Some mistakes are better than others?

• 2 years, 8 months ago
  Blair Lovern's comment on:

  SMU Science departments opposing intelligent design conference

  Seriously, blues, that's your rebuttal? Based on your response:
  1.) You have no idea what ID is
  2.) You don't understand ID can walk hand-in-hand with science AND evolution
  3.) You don't know what the Taliban is

  I can't think of any scientist who disagrees with the idea that everything in the universe started from a single point. Maybe there's one out there. But if the universe started from a single point, why did it start? To me, because the universe started, it automatically means it has a purpose.

  How did the unconscious become conscious? As smart as Darwin was, neither he nor anyone else can explain that one. But if you think life began through thunderstorms and sheer dumb luck then life is meaningless. There is no religion, no morality, no reason - you have boxed yourself in a corner because there is no point to anything.

• 2 years, 8 months ago
  Blair Lovern's comment on:

  SMU Science departments opposing intelligent design conference

  OK, wait, are we debating whether ID is a theory or a religion? Paul, you're moving into new territory now. And if ID is a religion, which one is it? Does it belong to many sects, its own, what?

  Yeah, I remember the court decision. How much was it copied from the ALCU? http://www.discovery.org/scripts/view...

  I'm just throwing stuff out there, guys. When debates like these are "settled" it makes me laugh.

• 2 years, 8 months ago
  Blair Lovern's comment on:

  SMU Science departments opposing intelligent design conference

  For every site that says ID is not a theory I can find one that says it is.

  http://www.ideacenter.org/contentmgr/...

  Based on that link you sent, Scott, you can put string theory, theory of everything and parts of theoretical physics in the not-a-theory trashbag and dump it on the curb for pickup Monday.

• 2 years, 8 months ago
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  Crain's campaign by the numbers (sorta, not really)

  He officially announced in April 2006, and this is what he said: "We don’t need anymore plans. We have plenty. We need someone to act on them — and I’m going to do it. I’m going to open that drawer, pick a direction and move forward with as much strength and courage as I can muster. I will lead the charge."

  Leadership results speak for themselves.

• 2 years, 8 months ago
  Blair Lovern's comment on:

  Zac Crain fails to get enough signatures for mayoral ballot

• 2 years, 8 months ago
  Blair Lovern's comment on:

  A Careless Whisper

  I know, Muzic. It's heartbreaking. In fact, it may be even opprobrious. This afternoon I'm taking this blog post in for some tests to see if it's fully opprobrious or just a mild case that can be treated with the new ampakine class of drugs.

• 2 years, 8 months ago
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  Carrollton Mayor Becky Miller signs Mayors Climate Protection Agreement

  J, I must say I am as confused by your posts as you are of mine. You keep nudging the Swindle movie in my direction, when I haven't mentioned that once. I haven't even seen it, I have no opinion on it, I haven't written a single word about it.

  Holocaust denial, UFOs, and all the usual, science is settled, do not question, just keep moving along, yes, yes. I'm in the middle of some other work here, but I actually have a nice pile of non-consensus information that I read with the consensus information. I like to make up my own mind.

  And please, J, point me specifically where on RealClimate (gee, you mean it's not just one guy pulling the strings on that thing and I can comment or something?) they totally refute the hockey stick. Tell me where that theory went down in flames on that site. I would like to know for my own education, because, ah, I do like to learn things.

• 2 years, 8 months ago
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  Mix Juice Pinball

  oh, man - big yes to Lizard Meathead and MXC. I used to be a urinal cake decorator, myself.

• 2 years, 8 months ago
  Blair Lovern's comment on:

  A Careless Whisper

  Muzic, I hate saying this but you are the fool for thinking I called the Goss Gallery. I emailed them. HUGE difference - I mean, c'mon, man, you can't assume crazy stuff like that.

  The lessons learned from 1984 run deeper than you think. Real deep. In fact they go all the way back to 1876 when Alexander Graham Bell made the first prank call to Thomas Edison.

  
  AGB: Why did the chicken cross the road?
  TE: What?
  AGB: Why did the chicken cro-
  TE (to friend sitting nearby): I can't hear him in this damn thing, I don't know what I'm doing here. Can you try - wait, ALEX?
  AGB: Tom?
  TE: Yeah, Alex, look - your invention needs some work
  AGB: What?
  TE: WHAT!?
  AGB: Undamnbelievable
  TE: I swear to dear God in heaven this is wasting so much of my time.

• 2 years, 8 months ago
  Blair Lovern's comment on:

  Carrollton Mayor Becky Miller signs Mayors Climate Protection Agreement

  So when I question one group's motives and reasoning then that's an attack, but that's not what's going on if you question a group, right? Is this a some ideas are more equal than others kind of thing?

  Realclimate.org = amazingly biased, not "A link to a great source for laymen." These are Hockey Stick lovers - still. That argument has been destroyed for a long while, although you'd never know it from them! (Gee, it's not in the IPCC summary this year, I wonder why?)

  You know what realclimate is like? It's the Internet version of Cliff the Mailman from that Cheers TV show - a know-it-all, got an answer for anything and everything, we are never wrong, high-horse riders who have tossed the "science" part of "climate science" out of every window in their office building. I tell you what, I actually feel a little embarrassed for them because sometimes they'll make a valid point and then screw it all up with 20 consecutive stupid ones. I do not trust those people. They don't do science. They do advocacy work. Now if that's your thing, more power to you.

  I'm not a scientist, J, I don't claim to be. I rely on smart people to think of smart things. But I think I have a pretty good BS detector, which went off on these Realclimate folks a long time ago. That's all I'm saying.

• 2 years, 8 months ago
  Blair Lovern's comment on:

  Carrollton Mayor Becky Miller signs Mayors Climate Protection Agreement

  J, when you say one side is too one-sided, and present with your counter-argument an extremely lopsided point of view, but try to pass it off as an even-handed one, then, yes, I'd much rather have The Rat Pack Is Back sing me a sweet doomsday lullaby.

• 2 years, 8 months ago
  Blair Lovern's comment on:

  Carrollton Mayor Becky Miller signs Mayors Climate Protection Agreement

  Realclimate is as lopsided a source as anything out there - and it is so technically bogged down that no layman can possibly refute or understand anything they say. Hell, forget the common man - no scientist can challenge those people. It's a farce.

• 2 years, 8 months ago
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  UPDATED: War protesters blocking Mockingbird-75 overpass during rush hour, moved on by 5:45

  Gadfly, you mean the same Al-Jazeera that hires people like Tayssir Alouni? Yeah, they're making a big difference.

• 2 years, 8 months ago
  Blair Lovern's comment on:

  The tough smart lawyer, Jim Adler, organizing lawsuit for victims of peanut butter

  This is Jim's #1 friend after Tom on MySpace. I kid ye not.

• 2 years, 8 months ago
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  UT Southwestern leaders to receive Research!America award for medical research accomplishments

  That's!Awesome

• 2 years, 8 months ago
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  Rangers drop Ameriquest, rename ballpark

  I don't have the Rangers media guide near me to look up biggest crowds in Arlington. Last sellout? I have no clue, maybe just opening day, some Yankee games. Baseball teams, on the whole, rarely sellout like the NBA or NHL. Add 25,000 more seats to the AAC and see how many sellouts you have.

  The Mavs played for the NBA championship last year, the Stars won the Stanley Cup in 1999. They don't hover at the bottom of the standings, that's why people pay money to see them. It's got nothing to do where the arena is.

  The Rangers finished second-to-last or last in the AL West for the past seven consecutive years. Yet they continue to beat more than half the league in attendance. Thousands more people go to Rangers home games than Oakland home games, and like I said, Oakland is allegedly good. But their stadium is a joke.

  Is it a coincidence that the three of the four highest season attendance marks in Arlington were when the Rangers made the playoffs? It might have been four out of five if the 1994 season wasn't truncated. And that lone, high attendance season came in 1997, in between division titles.

• 2 years, 8 months ago
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  UPDATED: War protesters blocking Mockingbird-75 overpass during rush hour, moved on by 5:45

  can we keep the discussion on a higher level, por favor?

• 2 years, 8 months ago
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  Rangers drop Ameriquest, rename ballpark

  That's not true, lakewooder. Between 1994-2001, the Rangers were either 3rd or 4th or 5th in attendance in the AL. From 2002-2006 they were either 6th or 7th - but that is still the top half of the league when they've had nothing but mediocre teams.

  On the other hand, Oakland, which allegedly has good teams each year, consistently ranks near the bottom every year in AL attendance and that stadium is in the middle of a bunch of people.

  Baltimore was 10th in the AL in attendance in 2006. That's unheard of in that city.

  Location may keep some marginal people away here and there, but it's not the main impediment.

• 2 years, 8 months ago
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  DFW hospitals report strong profits - how about investing that stuff into better food, eh?

  The pertinent DFW info. is what's on our site. The rest is linked. I'd rather they explain it with figures and graphs without anything being lost in translation. If you want even more detail you can write a check for $195 to the Texas Managed Care Review for the whole study.

• 2 years, 8 months ago
  Blair Lovern's comment on:

  R2-D2 starts working for the post office

  As much as I like Star Wars, wouldn't this have been more cool in, like, 1980?

• 2 years, 8 months ago
  Blair Lovern's comment on:

  Merritt Patterson is scaring me

  Wait a second he was in another band

  
• 2 years, 8 months ago
  Blair Lovern's comment on:

  Merritt Patterson is scaring me

  no, that was me

• 2 years, 8 months ago
  Blair Lovern's comment on:

  Anti-gay bias rages in Dallas schools

  I share no sympathy with the Dallas Voice over the F-word usage, because one year earlier they had absolutely no issue with artists portraying Jesus Christ "walking hand-in-hand with his male lover," or this painting:

  

  Or anything else that would have "evangelicals shaking in their boots."

  This past Feb., the Voice had no problem with this part of an interview with Michael Urie:

  "How have you dealt with all the attention?

  "We won the Golden Globes and thought we were invincible. Then we lost best ensemble at SAG and realized, 'Oh, yes, we’re not the only show on television.' It’s like a party. We don’t have any tabloid gossip. No one is calling anyone 'your little faggot' — we’re all each other’s little faggot."

  The Voice doesn't raise an eyebrow when singer Jake Shears says he doesn't care who says the F-word.

  The Voice goes nuts over Ann Coulter, but not Isaiah Washington, not Tim Hardaway.

  Sorry guys, but when some words are more equal than others you've totally lost credibility.

• 2 years, 8 months ago
  Blair Lovern's comment on:

  Dallas mayoral candidate Darrell Jordan cribbed notes for Web site

  Joe Biden didn't think it wasn't a problem, either, in the 1988 presidential race.

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