LED Lighting Guide: The Death of the Light Bulb The incandescent lamp should be called the "heat bulb" not light bulb, since it is capable of a maximum 10% efficiency, ...

Solar showdown in Calif. tortoises' desert home In a redux of the Cape Wind debacle and other misguided public opposition, (previous article) dumb environmentalism is again standing in the ...

As one of the most powerful liars in the world, Matt Drudge takes perverse pleasure in twisting facts to fit his right-wing denialist agenda. He's got this down to a ...

Can't get through the season without saying something about the annual "War on Christmas," that perverse ritual when Bill O'Reilly, Bill Donohue and the whole gang of U.S. cultural conservatives ...

Comes now Arsalan Iftikhar, an international human rights lawyer, founder of TheMuslimGuy.com, and contributing editor for Islamica magazine in Washington, to claim that religions don't inspire murder. Clearly, they ...

America's got to end its deadly devotion to democracy via Christian Science Monitor Democracy is a messy business, even in wealthy countries. One look at the Tea Party demonstrations proves ...

I knew my article on immigration would get some attention, but I didn't realize it would be such a textbook example of the hatred and bigotry I was talking ...

Apparently emboldened by the success of Prop. 8, it seems California religious nutters are now gathering signatures to put an initiative to ban divorce on the ballot in 2010. I still can't ...

Coal Industry Still Poisoning America's Water via New York Times ...and they're getting away with it. Even Obama's EPA can't seem to get a handle on the corruption, bullying and intimidation ...

Frankly, I am disturbed by late-term abortions. As I wrote several years ago (previous article "The Question of Sentience"), I think it's entirely arbitrary that we draw the moral ...

In 1780 in the Massachusetts constitution, John Adams said we are "a government of laws, not men." This is what the California Supreme court effectively restated today when it went ...

According to NASA, the astronauts on the International Space Station are now beginning to drink water purified from their own urine, sweat, and exhalations. While it's been possible for ...

The right is in a holy froth because President Obama laughed at a joke by Wanda Sykes saying she hoped Rush Limbaugh's kidneys would fail. Drudge immediately picked up the ...

I get email: Re: ... the overhyped swine flu scare... Hi Mark, Regardless of media hype, let me give you an inside look. The cases in ...

MPR: Dawkins seeks more converts to atheism. Overall, a good interview. The host comes across as somewhat hostile at first. But she's just throwing the typical objections at him, which ...

From the "elephant in the room" department comes this little item: As I'm sure you've all heard by now, a Muslim TV executive who had started a network to "counter ...

Religion has never needed much prodding to demonstrate its hypocrisy. It's almost a weekly perp-walk of the clergy across the world stage with their sexual indiscretions. Then there's the lying ...

Wow, I shouldn't be surprised any more, but I always am. It seems the new-agers take the same apologetics used by religion, then add on top their notions of universal ...

I received an email taking me to task for comparing the 9/11 truthers with climate change deniers. The correspondent claimed that while climate science was solid, the 9/11 truthers might ...

Iraqi woman had 80 women raped then recruited as suicide bombers A WOMAN suspected of recruiting more than 80 female suicide bombers has confessed to organising their rapes so she ...

On the heels of the release of Prophet's Daughter, two of Elizabeth Clare Prophet's children have published the memoirs of their Alzheimer's-stricken mother. Erin Prophet announced the publication today in ...

The AP is running a story about bison migration near Yellowstone Park. Bison have routinely left the park each winter in search of forage. Because many of them are ...

The Church of Atheism By DHRUV K. SINGHAL Its standard-bearers swarm across oceans and mountains, propagating a vitriolic doctrine of bigotry and intolerance ...

Sex invariably spells trouble, says Dalai Lama The Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual and temporal leader, on Friday said sex spelt fleeting satisfaction and trouble later, while ...

Following is a story that ran in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle print edition last Sunday, but did not make it online. Jessica pretty much nailed it, and quoted all ...