Every time evolution is discussed on HuffPo -- EVERY time -- someone religious will say, with that completely unfounded air of being profound that is ...
I don't know how many humans are going to be around in 2050 to look back and rage at the idiots that got them into the mess they find themselves in. I...
We keep trying, don't we, to understand the conservative mindset and the religious mindset (two oxymorons there for the price of one), and we keep fai...
Something that has been puzzling me for forty years (oh, all right, fifty years) is this -- how is it possible that people generally can't see that da...
I was going to write about this another day, but our leader Arianna has called on us to think about blogs and the main stream media, is the world big ...
Whenever Darwin is mentioned on HuffPo the blogosphere comes alive with outrage on the one hand, and restatements of the obvious on the other. Having ...
With the first anniversary of the start of Huffington Post looming, bloggers will be falling over themselves in the next few days to commemorate the e...
The Fundies (what an affectionate pet name that is, to be sure) have learnt, like their neocon brethren, to follow George Orwell's advice and control ...
Hmmm, I thought - have I singlehandedly caused the upsurge in religious madness around the world? Is fundamentalism all Horton's fault because he has ...
I know I celebrated the anniversary early ('A nest of singing birds'), but I couldn't let the day itself go unnoticed, now could I? So here is another...
One of the few pleasures of those of us with rapid onset old age is to say, occasionally, to younger people, 'I told you so'. All kinds of triumphs ar...
Here is a test, dear readers, on democracy. Answer the following questions, true or false, scoring 1 point for true and 0 points for false: (a) Ameri...
A couple of terrific questions about evolution in recent posts in response to my evolution blogs, and it was hard to decide which one to answer first....
When Galileo realised that the only way to explain what he was seeing with his own eyes was that the Earth revolved around the Sun, not the reverse, i...
You've gotta feel sorry for George Bush. George Bush knows all the things we can only speculate about. In his mind, behind those blank eyes, he knows...
Look, I don't know about you, but for the last three years I have been getting angrier and angrier at the response from the Right every time someone t...
The world increasingly resembles a school playground, with many twelve year old boys running wild. We see it every time there is a post on HuffPo, a n...
So, the fundies want to ban the Da Vinci Code (I had sworn never to put those three words together in a sentence, but hey, it's a minor misdemeanor) m...
Another quiz for HuffPost readers. What do these phrases have in common? 'Go forth and multiply', 'And man shall have dominion over ....', '... shall ...
Two great questions about evolution in recent posts in response to my evolution blogs, and here is the second one. One of my readers asks 'How does an...
One of my dear readers accused me of being too optimistic about the environment, the other day, and that isn't something I am accused of very often. B...
If Saddam Hussein had been a right wing brutal dictator, one with military, royal, or religious right wing credentials, would he still be in power tod...
Another comment too good to ignore from one of my dear readers: "I've heard lately that Fundies reject fossils as a trap, a test of believer's faith t...
The fundies keep coming at me - here's another one of the crowd of angry bees that descends every time I mention evolution: "You don't even address th...
I used to smoke heavily until about 15 years ago, and then somehow, thankfully, managed to give up, almost cold turkey. Incredibly difficult (memo to ...
