I work for a relatively successful software company. Recently, one of my co-workers joked that really, if you think about...
Interestingly, the modern idea of a historical "flat earth" was actually created by atheists: No one before the 1830s believed...
What is "religious" is a largely subjective question which varies from individual to individual. Something which is not a "religious"...
The answer to that question largely depends upon who you are. But the important thing to note is that there's...
Walter A. Brown MD, Psychiatric Times: In the course of gathering information for his book, At Day's Close: Night in...
For no particular reason, I'm reading a blog called "Friendly Atheist", and notice a few things. First, I note, he...
Like the New York Times, Wikipedia is fairly reliable on uncontroversial subjects. Curious about boron or the capital of Wisconsin?...
Four years before I was born, man walked on the moon for the first time, the most magnificent single...
Here are the academic credentials of some of the prominent scientific supporters of Intelligent Design I've encountered: Michael Behe -...
For any of my beloved friends who might possibly, for a fleeting moment, have any lingering doubts about whether they...
Via babalu (via InstaPundit): A Catalan newspaper is reporting that Honduran authorities have seized computers found in the Presidential Palace...
"Occam's razor" (a maxim meaning "don't add unnecessary entities", basically) was very much in vogue while I was in college....
Perfunction, quoting political philosopher John Mellencamp. I don't think people fought and gave their lives so that some guy can...
Via InstaPundit: "I'm Barack Obama, and I favor more competition in health insurance." [....] It will come as a surprise...
For weeks now, a good fraction of what NPR has covered has been Sotomayor. And ever single story I've heard...
A: They're both religions and not-religions, depending on which is most convenient at the moment. The New York Times: Citing...
Last year, my gal and I toured the local "Parade of Homes" -- built conveniently within earshot of Bandimere Speedway....
... and that's putting it mildly. And apologies in advance to any of my (two, most likely) semi-regular readers that...
Times Online: Iran's biggest group of clerics has declared President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election to be illegitimate and condemned the subsequent...
The UN has been on the wrong side of almost every issue in history -- effectively, if not verbally. It...
Daily Mail: Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir were perhaps the most influential couple of the 20th century. Their legendary...