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V, Propaganda?
So I just finishing watching the first episode of V. As I did I was reminded of other series that have had a similar premise of aliens coming to earth and dramatically effecting our culture. I was reminded of the shadowy Taelons in their ridiculous p...
Did Glenn Beck Rape and Murder a Young Girl in 1990?
“The old American mind-set that Richard Hofstadter famously called the paranoid style — the sense that Masons or the railroads or the Pope or the guys in black helicopters are in league to destroy the country — is aflame again, fanned from...
Why Torture Matters
If you really believe in equal rights for all humans then those rights must be applied even to these men. If you cherish your own access to due process and fair treatment but want to deny these men those same rights then you don't believe in human ri...
Gates-Gate
Though I do not believe it was an instance of police racism the arrest of professor Gates is a teaching moment and the lesson is that the police power is something we should all be weary of....
A Problem of Politics
The best argument against democracy is five minutes with the average voter. –Winston Churchill Someone once said that Politics is the Mind Killer. That our evolutionary drives to fight and protect the tribe leads us to abandon reason. I fear t...
Does Media Matter?
July of last year a man named Jim Adkisson saw that a local Unitarian Universalist church had begun welcoming Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered members of the community to come worship with them. He believed that homosexuality was an abominat...
A Few Thoughts On Civility
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being. - - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Earlier this week PZ Meyers of Pharyngula fame wrote a post about the limits of civility declaring,...
A Few Thoughts On Civility
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being. - - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Earlier this week PZ Meyers of Pharyngula fame wrote a post about the limits of civility declaring, "T...
