Archive for January, 2007
January 31st, 2007 / Religion /
Interpretations of religious texts have always been from a male point of view because throughout religious history they have been in power--similar to the notion that the winners write the ...
January 31st, 2007 / Religion /
Congratulations to the RRS for raising national awareness of atheism. I will be taking the blasphemy challenge as soon as I have time to record for posterity my denial of ...
January 29th, 2007 / Religion /
Male doctors, particularly in maternity wards, say they are increasingly subject to insults, even blows, most often by men opposed to nudity or physical contact with their wives and daughters.
January 27th, 2007 / Energy Transition /
Demand for ethanol has finally caught up with the corn subsidies and government price controls. It will hit poorer nations first, then everyone.
All the more reason non-food ethanol feedstocks ...
January 24th, 2007 / Film, Religion /
The religious outcry about the screening of the film Hounddog at Sundance is only the latest wrinkle in religious hypocrisy. It reveals some severely misplaced priorities. In Hounddog, child actor ...
January 24th, 2007 / Current Affairs, Energy Transition /
Will you offend Bob Lutz and your oil friends with substantial CAFE standard increases? Will you have the guts to get Yucca Mountain open? Will you push for consumer taxes ...
January 23rd, 2007 / Religion /
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January 23rd, 2007 / Religion /
Humans clearly have the need for mythology, ritual, and the like. But maybe we could stop looking outside ourselves for leaders and role models. No one has the answers. Better ...
January 20th, 2007 / Religion /
From the Jerusalem Post, with hat-tip to Aidan Maconachy, comes this story about the dark sexual shadow of Islamism as practiced in Iran. This in a country where ...
January 19th, 2007 / Current Affairs /
By this neat shell game, we get to conveniently ignore the shadow of our own consumption, our own self-interested acts of taking advantage of others we do by proxy every ...
January 16th, 2007 / Religion /
It's religious freedom day! Since theists are so fond of telling atheists ours is a "belief system," let's take advantage of the day to proclaim those 'beliefs.' While many ...
January 13th, 2007 / Current Affairs, Energy Transition /
If you drive a vehicle, no matter how good the mileage may be (I include myself and other Prius drivers, we simply use less, but we are still dependent) you ...