I have this bumper sticker and a few others on my car and boy do they get the looks! Especially on Sunday mornings back in Kentucky when the mini-van full Continue Reading →
So I haven’t blogged in a week. But I follow Jerry Coyne‘s website WEIT (Why Evolution is True) daily and skim over Hemant Mehta‘s “Friendly Atheist” blog and PZ Myers’ Continue Reading →
The spread and extent of Islam across the Middle East “In the Middle East, people were tired of the old dictatorships. They weren’t prepared for what should follow them, but Continue Reading →
Professor Ehrman delivers an excellent lecture on his views on how Jesus, to him definitely a historical figure, became thought of gradually in early Xianity as God, when in the Continue Reading →
Billy Connolly, Scottish comedian, age 71 now. Probably now more than ever this 4 minute YouTube excerpt from his “Was It Something I Said” 2 hour DVD full stand-up routine Continue Reading →
Sam Harris’s End Of Faith, published August 2004. 10 years. A decade ago. Just one short decade, a lousy 10 years, a mere 1/10 of a century… AND LOOK HOW Continue Reading →
Victor J. Stenger (1/29/1935-8/27/2014) age 79. Physicist and science-secular author, out to save people from the delusions and repressions of religious thought. My kinda guy. Hemant Mehta at “Friendly Atheist” Continue Reading →
A look back to the 1960’s I’m 60 next week. My parents were born in the late 20’s and I grew up in the US of A, in the 60’s. Continue Reading →
President Obama. His words. Quoted in the 08.21.14 USA TODAY headline article “Troops Tried to Rescue Hostage” regarding US journalist James Foley’s beheading Tuesday by IS (Islamic State) in Syria. Continue Reading →
Gaza The NY Times published a short article on the current Israel-Palestinian conflict: Gaza Conflict Is Just The Latest Round In A Long War. The insanity of it all is Continue Reading →
