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Posted 04.02.2006
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Why do people still get sucked in by religion at least 150 years after they should know better?
Why do people still get sucked in by religion at least 150 years after they should know better?
Does Bode Miller get another try at getting the Winter Olympics right? Does anyone get another try at the Winter Olympics? Another 4 years of rising t...
No matter what topic I am covering, I should include the word religion somewhere in the title. That might get the believers thinking about the real end of the world.
The religious mindset has been one of the major factors in preventing American action on greenhouse gases.
I was at a meeting the other day where a farmer got up and demanded that all the terrible regulations burdening farming people be eliminated., as well...
The power of big corporations has greatly expanded in the last decade, as a result of removal or watering down of regulations, tax breaks, reduction i...
If you can't be self-indulgent in a blog then where can you be self-indulgent? Our beloved great leader Arianna has gone to New York or somewhere to ...
The scientists of the world have mobilised to fight the War on Global Warming. They don't have time to be undermined by a kind of religious fifth column.
I can no longer watch nature documentaries on television. When I was a boy I loved, and was endlessly curious about, the natural world around me. I t...
One side has messianic leaders, death as a prelude to heaven, brainwashing, exploitation of the poor and uneducated, a hatred of all non-believers ... um, so does the other side.
How a country treats its women is a very good measure of how civilised it is. Are any of the western countries as civilised as they used to be?
Is it just me or is destruction of both the natural and the social worlds to make a few people richer one of the factors leading to the breakdown of community?
I see that the American Association for the Advancement of Science (http://www.aaas.org/news/releases/2006/0219boardstatement.shtml and see http://www...
Look, every time scientists report another significant fossil find, the fundamentalists who spend their life monitoring the HuffPo (go figure, it beat...
If you heard someone running through your hotel calling 'Fire, Fire' would you say to yourself 'Hey, that guy drives a Hummer, what a hypocrite, ignor...
Recently read a speech by Tony Blair on Iraq where every sentence was a lie. With George Bush of course, it is impossible to remember a sentence he ha...
Governments always lie when they want their people to go to war for reasons that they don't want to admit. But why the extra lie?
When I told a scientist friend recently that Hurricane Katrina could be attributed to global warming he scolded me severely. I was not to refer to ind...
Until governments again see their role as investing in their people, and stop outsourcing the task to the newly abundant billionaires, society will continue to crumble around us all.
Religious fundamentalists who spread creationist propaganda, inflicting a kind of mental terrorism on schools, should also be on 'no-fly lists'.
What on earth is the problem that fundies have with Harry Potter? They have always been good at book burning, fundies of all religions.
You know how it is, you read something and it makes no real impression for twenty minutes and then 'Ping' a low energy light bulb goes on in the remai...
If we want to change the world again (and we seem to have to do this every forty years or so) then we are going to have to find a way to do it that doesn't involve book publishing.
Used to be you only got junk mail in the post box. Now email inboxes are packed with offers to improve your sex life, transfer money from Nigeria, los...
In my previous post I learnt yet again that (a) there are some very smart HuffPosters out there, and (b) I therefore must be very careful about how I ...
