Judge returns young patient to parents $100 these parents are Christian Scientists. The part about vitamin C treatments would be hilarious--if it wasn't so tragic.

Chavez warns of spooky US Halloween 'terrorism' Just what the world needs, a religious communist. Lighten up, Hugo!

Utah's 'Mollywood' a Wholesome Hollywood? A Mormon 'family values' film company. Puke. No matter how good the scripts may be, life is not G-rated. Films that skirt difficult topics will ...

Births to unmarried mothers set record ...as the irrelevancy of traditional marriage grows...

Expulsion For Gay Comments? Duquesne Student Resists Punishment

WHOI - Eureka Teenager First Female Designated "Sexually Dangerous"

Danforth Criticizes Christian Sway in GOP

I recently received some reader comments regarding existentialism, under a political story in a place where they would not likely be read. The reader was asking me to comment on ...

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The News Telegraph is reporting that the world is safer than ever, but some people are never satisfied. It's a well known fact, and is discussed extensively in Pinker's ...

Many doomers point to Jevon's Paradox as proof that efficiency improvements don't matter, and that we are bound to run into absolute limits and then we're screwed. Therefore, they ...

Ray Kurzweil's new book, "The Singularity is Near" is a stunning compendium of future history. To those not familiar with Kurzweil's method, the book reads like far-fetched science fiction. In ...

Smart environmentalism is about trying to encourage sustainability, cradle-to-cradle design of products and services, preserving natural capital, and in general making the world a better place to live. Dumb environmentalism never met a new technology it trusted or liked. It throws up roadblocks to human progress in favor of other species. It makes emotional appeals about the death of nature and promotes all-or-nothing solutions. And it does not engage in effective cost benefit analysis.

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