One is a US state: hot, dry, mostly arid: a place where many retire to escape the respiratory irritation of muggy, polluted, city air and breathe the dry, healing, desert Continue Reading →
Comet NEOWISE visible above the NW horizon of central Oregon, just passing by the Sun. Unfortunately, I didn’t get a view like that. Comet NEOWISE was just too faint where Continue Reading →
Lake Superior-no salt added, shark-free, along the North Shore NW of Duluth MN OK so I wasn’t gonna do any research on a topic, just an impromptu essay for the Continue Reading →
A Xmas “gift” courtesy of ancient religious thought from the other side of the planet: abject homophobia built into another primitive belief system. Many ex-Christians I’ve known have embraced Buddhism Continue Reading →
Jase Heap of The Untied Coalition of Reason reports that 367 out 1,041 incoming freshmen at American University in Wash DC identify as a “None” of some kind. “Nones” of Continue Reading →
We are a recalcitrant species. Stubbornness, when manifested as stick-to-it-iveness, is a hallmark of our very human tenacity and cleverness to adapt to almost any environment on earth. In the Continue Reading →
WHY WE CAN WIN The following is a an edited excerpt of an anonymous conversation from a discussion thread from one of my classes. “I go to a private christian Continue Reading →
(as recent a photo as I got. But a few months old, speaking, talking with my hands as usual, wanting to convey information as usual as well…it is what separates Continue Reading →
By 2050, according to estimates derived from the 2008 census, there will be just under 90 million people 65 and older in the US, comprising about 20% of the population. Continue Reading →
Just where does science denial come from? You guessed it: Religion. Name me one secular organization that denies climate change. Name me one secular organization that upholds old, pre-scientific, ideas Continue Reading →
