Monday, December 17, 2012

Do We Need a Perfect Crisis to Get Us on a Better Path?

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By Gary Berg-Cross Seasonal, but traditional Xmas, parties sometimes offer an opportunity for good conversations.   Of course, ...

Pius XII & the NY Times

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by Edd Doerr Bill Donohue and the Catholic League ran a 1/4 page ad in the 12/17/12 NY Times extolling the "heroics" of Pope Piu...
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Saturday, December 15, 2012

The determinism versus indeterminism question

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By Mathew Goldstein If our universe is deterministic then stopping, rewinding, and then restarting the clock would result in a repeat perf...

Why do such things happen?

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By Gary Berg-Cross An NBC headline reads, “Massacre leaves America shocked and grieving ... again.” Further below House Speaker...

No Bad Deeds Go Unrewarded

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by Edd Doerr On Nov 6 Florida voters rejected, 55 to 45, a proposed state constitutional amendment designed to allow diversion of public f...
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Thursday, December 13, 2012

Birth Control and Abortion

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by Don Wharton  The following graphic says it all. If the far right wants to prevent abortions it must support free contraceptives.  Imag...
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Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Science and Republicans

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by Edd Doerr Charles Blow's NY Times column on 12/7/12 contained this info on the political affiliations of scientists, per a 2009 sur...
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Sherwin Wine's Last Book

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a review by Edd Doerr A Provocative People: A Secular History of the Jews, by Sherwin T. Wine (International Institute for Secular Humanis...