1. Huge rally for Turkish secularism

Comment #35950 by Gurnet on April 29, 2007 at 12:48 pm

Mind_Rebel: so whose job is it to bestow these "options" you write of onto populations like in the Middle East?

2. Pundit Christopher Hitchens picks a fight in book, 'God is Not Great'

Comment #35927 by Gurnet on April 29, 2007 at 10:47 am

Zaphod:

Where are we supposed to disagree? My post was a comment on what I saw as the ridiculous notion in the article that a thing should only be written if it is a serious attempt to change people's minds.

3. Pundit Christopher Hitchens picks a fight in book, 'God is Not Great'

Comment #35850 by Gurnet on April 29, 2007 at 4:15 am

Side issue, I know, but I prefer "preaching to the converted" to "preaching to the choir".

It's more precise and does not insult atheist choristers.

4. Pundit Christopher Hitchens picks a fight in book, 'God is Not Great'

Comment #35818 by Gurnet on April 29, 2007 at 1:33 am

"But what is the point of writing such a book? Surely, it will change no mind"

So unless a book is written with the express intention and aim of converting as many people as possible, it shouldn't be written at all? What an ignoramus.

5. Archive Hour: BBC and Religion

Comment #35805 by Gurnet on April 28, 2007 at 11:19 pm

"How about a bomb in Northern Ireland for not thinking the pope has all the answers"

When did this happen?

6. In Lice, Clues to Human Origin and Attire

Comment #25260 by Gurnet on March 11, 2007 at 10:57 am

The same occurred to me.

Perhaps the New York Times will let its readers (humans and gorillas) know which companies offer private health care for gorillas in the wild.