"But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and I should wish to do, evidence of design and beneficence on all sides of us. There seems to me too much misery in the world. I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created that a cat should play with mice."
-- Charles Darwin, Letter to Asa Gray
Monday, May 12, 2008
Got to Look This Up. Mad, Quite Mad. Which is No Reason Not to Do It.
Brother Morahan writes:
Have you noticed: Lee Smith in the Chronicle of Higher Ed. says that the nations wealthiest colleges and universities should buy the NYT.
There is precedent for this sort of thing. The CP published Pravda and Izvestia, giving readers a similar range of opinion.
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