Teh Other

A large swath of the American public— led by ratings-mad media mavens and immoral politicians like Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin— has declared all-out war on “the Other”. . .

When Your Dogma Runs Over Your Karma

Mud thou art, and to mud shall thou return. Christopher Hitchens is an atheist dogmatist. For all his witty brilliance, he hasn’t figured out that only an unqualified reality— an absolute— could dare to be as consistently dogmatic as he is.  And he certainly isn’t an absolute reality. Yes, he can intellectually deny God— and still be morally good, loyal, …

The Gimmick Of Mass Destruction

Joe Kieyoomia was a young Navajo soldier from New Mexico. In April of 1942, he was captured by the Japanese when the Allied forces surrendered the Philippines. . .

THE SUPREMELY STUPID

Sharron Angle, Michele Bachmann, and Sarah Palin are the reigning supremely stupid. Unless you have been on another planet, you already know we are in one of our nation’s— even the world’s— most critical transitional periods.  And every day now, we learn more about many of our so-called “leaders,” as they increasingly expose themselves as incompetent, corrupt, and unqualified to …

Humble Hubble Pie In The Sky

“And the patch of sky was no bigger than a grain of sand held out at arm’s length.”

Hey Kids… Update

We’re not sure whether FireFox’s latest “fix” has fixed us in a way that sucks, or WordPress’ latest upgrade has fracked us somehow;  but new posts aren’t showing up—  and if you can see this one, you can’t tell us because comments have stopped working. Anyway. We’ll get a digital doctor’s appointment to get to the bottom of it.  In the …

Father’s Day

As the decades rolled by, one president after another, starting with Woodrow Wilson, found they were impotent to get a simple proclamation honoring fathers through the U.S. Congress.