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Saturday, July 20, 2013

Absence of God and Shaw's Two Percent

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George Bernard Shaw once wrote that, "Two percent of the people think; three percent of the people think they think; and ninety five pe...

Talking about the Issue

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President Obama on Thursday opined on the George Zimmerman trial in a speech that cries out for deconstructive analysis of what it tells us...
Friday, July 19, 2013

Et Tu, Unions?

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As public confidence in Obamacare suffers one blow after another even Democrats are heading for the tall grass. Senator Max Baucus called it...
Thursday, July 18, 2013

Random Thoughts on a Tragedy

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I thought I'd share some ruminations I had (and you probably had, too) in the wake of the Zimmerman trial: It's disturbing, I think...
Wednesday, July 17, 2013

The Secular Society

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At The New York Times David Brooks takes on the formidable task of summarizing Charles Taylor's dense 800 page tome titled A Secular Ag...
Tuesday, July 16, 2013

T-Cells and Cancer Cures

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The U.K. Independent has a story that may soon become international news. It seems that researchers have developed a means of treating can...
Monday, July 15, 2013

Colors and Patterns

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An article at Phys.org recounts some amazing results of research that was done into why bird feathers take on the colors and patterns that ...
Saturday, July 13, 2013

Will There Be Blood?

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It seems that a lot of people, including a lot of African Americans are fearful that should George Zimmerman be acquitted there'll be r...
Friday, July 12, 2013

How Not to Review a Book

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Gareth Cook at the New Yorker does his best to discredit Darwin's Doubt and its author Stephen Meyer, but his best isn't very good...
Thursday, July 11, 2013

Homosexuality

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Having written several times in the past on reasons why same-sex marriage is a very bad idea, I thought I'd try the social equivalent of...
Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Barney Fife Award

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Those of a certain vintage will remember that Sheriff Andy of Mayberry had a deputy named Barney Fife who was so incompetent that Andy only ...

Secular Humanism and Charity

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Joe Klein at Time magazine's Swampland blog cogitates on why secular humanists are not prominent in charitable work and religious organ...
Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Darwin's Doubt

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Stephen Meyer is a historian and philosopher of science. Several years ago he wrote Signature in the Cell ( SIC ), a book that shook the m...
Monday, July 8, 2013

Bad Example

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It will be, or at least should be, astonishing if President Obama escapes the appellation of future historians as the most lawless president...

Pants on Fire

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I'm currently reading a book on L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology, and the picture it paints of the man is far from flattering...
Saturday, July 6, 2013

Nation of Mutts

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David Brooks has written a column on immigration titled A Nation of Mutts . The title refers to the demographic changes that will overtake ...
Friday, July 5, 2013

Silver Linings

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One of the benefits of the recent revelations of nefarious doings at the White House, IRS, NSA, EPA, and State Department for which we can a...
Thursday, July 4, 2013

Good Grief

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I don't want to make too much of this and don't want to suggest that this group of women is representative of all pro-choicers, but ...

Independence Day

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As we watch the Egyptians celebrate the overthrow of a dictatorial tyranny in Cairo it might be good as we celebrate the day on which we ass...
Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Liberal Lynch Mob

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Our national media have chosen to make the George Zimmerman trial a national spectacle. There are dozens of interracial shootings every year...