Torture: A Moral Sickness
“It still haunts me, the first time — it was in Chile, in October of 1973 — that I met …
Monthly Archives: September 2006
Islam: Sam Harris
Sam Harris, the author of The End of Faith, a sharply argued, and worded, polemic against religion — all religion, …
Thailand: The Other Shoe Drops
Well damn! If this isn’t interesting. When the news of the coup in Thailand came in last week one had …
Terrorism Spread by US
The Iraq war has made the overall terrorism problem worse, says the classified National Intelligence Estimate. Please, don’t anyone ask …
Illeagals! Come back! We Love You!
The enormous idiocy of the anti immigrant crowd is that they don’t even see what it is they are asking …
Science Friday: Pornography
I know this will interest no one. Porn is a big business. Every year, Americans spend $4 billion on video …
Authoritarianism: The Root of it All
Authoritarianism is the genus. Fascism, Naziism, Khmer-rougeism, Hutuism, whatever is brewing in the petri dishes of modern culture, are the …
War and Children
From the Institute for War and Peace Reporting. Ayat Salah, six, stopped talking after she found a headless body in …
Gaia: Sick and Getting Sicker
James Lovelock, the Gaia hypothesis scientist, is not too optimistic. “There’s no realization of how quickly and irreversibly the planet …
Non Stop Demonstrations among Muslims
You’d almost have to think the neo-cons made him do it, the way Pope Benedict’s citation of a 14th century …
The Pope, Islam, Atheism
Sam Harris who is making quite a name for himself as a militant, in your face atheist, has a dashed …
CO2 Cut it Fast and then Faster
From Great Britain “Drastic action is needed if Britain is to have any chance of avoiding catastrophic climate change, a …