Sunday, September 28, 2008

A poetic riffing on Ed Abbey

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ARCHES 1968 Written within the mindset, and through the eyes and viewpoint of, Ed Abbey, as a reflection on the 40th anniversary of “Desert ...
Thursday, September 11, 2008

Refresh your mind with new Skeptic’s Circle

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The latest issue of Skeptic’s Circle is now up , hosted by skepticism’s own secular patron saint, Bob Carroll, creator of the Skeptic’s Dict...
Sunday, July 27, 2008

Imagine there was a Jesus born 100 years early

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Let’s say there was a “Jesus,” but it was the Yeshua put to death as a Pharisaic religious and political rebel by Hasmonean king Alexandar J...
Saturday, July 26, 2008

Is Evolutionary Psychology the new sexism, or the new Social Darwinism?

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Note – per a blog post earlier this week , I once again have clearly explained the difference between Evolutionary Psychology and scientifi...
Wednesday, July 09, 2008

Atheists who willingly defend misleading language are a pox

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Two weeks ago, I blogged about the latest Pew Research Poll on American religious beliefs, noting this absurdity, among other things: Amer...
Sunday, July 06, 2008

Dying-and-rising savior-god an ancient Jewish tenet

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Or so a brief tablet , with 87 lines of Hebrew text, pictured by the New York Times at right, would indicate. We’re only eight years into t...
Friday, July 04, 2008

Science roundup — Greenland, Mercury, Pompeii, Mexico, West Nile, pulsars, sweat

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Greenland glacier melt not as fast as feared Not that this gives George W. Bush, or Chinese President Hu Jintao, a reprieve in the global wa...