I have never seen the “global warming as conspiracy” theory put so forcefully. Which makes me think it might be a spoof. You never can tell these days. This hilarious article at the National Review manages to cover Why global … Continue reading →

Doonesbury just keeps getting better and better. Radicals can only survive when fear replaces reason. So they need enemies real or imagined. Be sure to hit previous a few times and read the King George episodes from earlier this week.

Most people think of politics in terms of left and right. Continue reading →

I posted this When we create laws to prevent immoral behavior, we make society less moral to provoke Jeff’s philosopher into telling me which book to go read. I was expecting something from the 20th century. He found something a … Continue reading →

One of the statements is not like the other one … Rep. Katherine Harris (R-Fla.) said this week that God did not intend for the United States to be a “nation of secular laws” and that the separation of church … Continue reading →

This essay, quoted from Atlantic Monthly, suggests that your worldview can be summed up by what period of the 20th century you think 2006 is like. 1938ers think that Germany (Iran) is a growing threat that we ignore at our … Continue reading →

I watched Sunday’s Meet the Press last night. The panel discussion was quite excellent but I  was horrified to hear all the panelists falling over themselves to claim that they never supported the war in the first place. Where were … Continue reading →

Before the end of this year, the Bush administration will claim that the War in Iraq is nothing to do with the War on Terror and that no-one had ever claimed that success in Iraq was crucial to the War … Continue reading →

I have wanted to say something like this for a long while, but this letter to the NYTimes editor says it perfectly. As a longtime peace activist who was opposed to the Iraq war from the beginning, I deeply resent … Continue reading →

Still waiting for Jeff’s philosopher to give me some context for my musings on morality, but while we wait… I just subscribed to The Mouse Trap, a blog about evolutionary psychology. Today’s entry was about moral dilemmas and moral development … Continue reading →