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April 2006

200,000 Arab-Loving Jews...

... meet with a similar number of Jew-Loving Arabs. And do you think this was newsworthy enough for us in...

Peak Oil Panic!

Good article in Reason magazine, addressing the burning (sorry) question: Is the planet running out of gas?...

Gnosticism is "Christianity"?

This week newpapers have been busy telling everyone that ancient Gnosticism was, in fact, a form of "Christianity". I'd learned...

Dirty Dealings and the Gospel of Judas

To follow up to my earlier posting on Gospel of Judas -- where I mentioned that gnostics were fond of...

Michael Shermer, Becoming a Sceptic

When I was young, I used to think atheists knew something I didn't. So in college I read everything I...

Katie Holmes to Change Her Name

Apparently, Lestat's bride is now in his thrall: Actress Katie Holmes, who recently gave birth to daughter Suri with her...

Gospel of Judas

I'm astonished at how gullible so many people are, how prone to wishful thinking. I keep hearing things like this...

Michael Savage: Again, NOT a Conservative

I chanced to hear a few minutes of Michael Savage again the other night. What do people see in this...

Leftism Hurt Children

It's unbelievable, the harm we did to poor families and children for so many years, all in the name of...

Being "Progressive" Apparently Means...

Embracing Marx's economic theories, which were formulated in the nineteenth century and utterly discredited by the close of the twentieth....

Quixtar versus the Bible

The "God" Spin There's often an attempt to link Quixtar with biblical morality, particularly by those pushing it. For example,...

"Socialized To"

I don't mind jargon. Jargon is a special set of terms which apply within one particular field or discipline. When...

United Church of Christ: Suffering from Ejection Projection

The United of Church of Christ (UCC), rather than running a positive ad campaign highlighting what it offers, instead has...

Lovin' our Country

Today on the way to work I saw old 1980s Cadillac, with heavily-tinted windows. Clearly painted on the back window,...

'Piskie Envy

On one hand, I envy Christopher Johnson of Midwest Conservative Journal: whereas Random Observations only covers... well, just about anything...

Movie Review: Stephen King's "Storm of the Century"

For a while, as a kid, I used to read quite a lot of Stephen King. Then at one point,...

Study Proves Prayer Doesn't Heal?

A lot of people -- both sceptical and believing -- have said that the recent study on the healing power...

Checking it Twice?

Steve, who is about my age and just as single, has been put off women: I am having a horrifying...

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