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21% of Atheists believe in God


No kidding. That’s what “they” say.

Yes, I’m back in town. New York, Poconos, back to New York, Seattle, Pasadena. I miss my family. Hit the ground running yesterday. Had a productive day. Email piling up. Lots to answer.

I must concur with Jordon Cooper who twittered, “I may be old fashioned but Twittering church services and sermons seems tacky.”

Here’s some link love:

  • NoiseTrade: fair trade and music, seems interesting
  • MOST GLORIOUS CEREMONIAL BEIJING OLYMPING: I laughed all the way through this live blog thread by Australian Tim Blair. It’s snarky and fairly mean-spirited, but I found it a helpful balance and perspective-reminder, because… this opening ceremony was off the hook, so fresh and inspiring that it made me forget the things that are wrong with China.
  • President Bush was happy he could get his photo taken with this guy: “President George W. Bush poses for a photo with U.S. Olympic runner Lopez Lomong Friday, Aug. 8, 2008, in Beijing prior to Opening Ceremonies of the 2008 Summer Olympic Games. Lopez Lomong, a survivor of the violence in his native Sudan, now a U.S. citizen, was selected by his teammates to lead the U.S. Olympic team into Olympic National Stadium carrying the United States Flag at the Opening Ceremony.

    Let me also add that I’m proud of the U.S. Olympic team for selecting Lomong as the flag-bearer.
  • Drill Like Texas: I’m going to tattoo this one on my forehead. It will get its own blog post.
  • Charles Krauthammer: “On Energy, Do Everything”
  • Joel Alicea: Drilling in Silence: Princeton junior on summer internship delves into the politics behind drilling.
  • Alice Thomson, Times of London: Suddenly being green is not cool any more
  • Whom do we fear or trust? Faces instantly guide us, Scientists say. A little obvious, but always nice to see some research back common sense.
  • An ad hoc by any other name: Concise overview of where things stand in my town in relation to anti-youth violence collaboration efforts.

    • and finally…

    This one is making the rounds among pro-market economy types: Economics Does Not Lie: The dismal science is at last a science, and the world is the beneficiary by Guy Sorman in City Journal

    Here are dude’s ten points (paging Chris Brooks, where is he when you really need him?):

    1. The market economy is the most efficient of all economic systems.
    2. Free trade helps economic development.
    3. Good institutions help development.
    4. The best measure of a good economy is its growth.
    5. Creative destruction is the engine of economic growth.
    6. Monetary stability, too, is necessary for growth; inflation is always harmful.
    7. Unemployment among unskilled workers is largely determined by how much labor costs.
    8. While the welfare state is necessary in many forms, it isn’t always effective.
    9. The creation of complex financial markets has brought about economic progress.
    10. Competition is usually desirable.

    I’m taking this one with me to New York in September when I speak at Acton Institute’s Toward a Free and Virtuous City conference.

    posted Aug 9, 2008, 8:18am by Rodolpho Carrasco





    9 Aug 2008, 9:00am
    by Stacey Derbinshire


    Nice writing style. I look forward to reading more in the future.

    9 Aug 2008, 5:44pm
    by Tennwriter


    Add to that percentage of atheist theists the percentage that really do believe in God, but are angry at Him.

    Amusing to some degree.

    13 Aug 2008, 8:42pm
    by nydia


    great links, rudy–thx!

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