Friday, January 24, 2014

"Murder in Paradise"

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by Edd Doerr While I spend little time watching TV, a recent British mystery series, "Murder in Paradise", has been interesting....
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Wednesday, January 22, 2014

The Public School Advantage

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a review by Edd Doerr The Public School Advantage: Why Public Schools Outperform Private Schools, by Christopher A. Lubienski and Sarah Th...
Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Church-State Separation

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Religio-political ultraconservatives and their media regularly deprecate church-state separation as the exclusive province of secularists, h...
Monday, January 20, 2014

Russia: The Pendulum Swings

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by Edd Doerr For decades the now defunct Soviet Union strongly opposed all religion and allowed women free choice on abortion. Now, howeve...
Sunday, January 19, 2014

Overuse of "the"

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by Edd Doerr Despite its incomparably rich vocabulary and other virtues, our English tongue is rather a mess phonetically. Not long ago I ...
Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Alan Weisman's "Countdown"

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a review by Edd Doerr Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth? by Alan Weisman. Little, Brown & Co,  2013, 528 pp, $28.00...
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Monday, January 13, 2014

Washington Area Secular Humanists on Wikipedia

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By Gary Berg-Cross Just as Humanlight commenced in December, 2013 and the year was ending we got word that WASH now has a. entry on ...
Saturday, January 11, 2014

Atheists need to assert ourselves! Here's how.

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By Mathew Goldstein Jeffrey Taylor is a contributing editor for The Atlantic magazine.  Salon magazine recently published his short articl...