1. What important things do I believe I could accomplish that no one else could? 2. What's my second or third ...

I wanted to chime in with my two cents about the question of scientific morality. Sam Harris has laid out ...

Once in a while you strike Facebook gold. The kinds of discussions I used to have here on BSJ ...

If there was any doubt about the abject inadequacy of the conservative psyche to face modern life, the airport scanner ...

I don't suffer fools gladly. As BSJ moves into a new decade, I've decided that certain subjects are not worth ...

"How can we ever agree, Like the rest of the world, We grow farther apart. I swear you don't listen to ...

I've been called out today by former friend and colleague Francois Tremblay over a Facebook discussion (PDF) started by his ...

Continued from Part 2 From campaign speeches to tent revivals to late-night talk radio, countless orators throughout human history have influenced, cajoled, inspired, and galvanized the ...

The Singularity is a concept first discussed by Vernor Vinge in the 1980s. Later, Ray Kurzweil became one of its ...

A survey out last week from the Pew Research Center shows declining perceptions of necessity for a variety of household ...

Chapter 1: You are not Your Mind Subhead: The Greatest Obstacle to Enlightenment pp. 11-16 Tolle encourages "finding the gold inside yourself." It's ...

Eckhart Tolle is a first-class charlatan. Despite this fact, he has sold, and continues to sell millions of copies of his ...

Best selling New-Age author Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love) recently delivered a TED talk in which she called into ...

The sky is falling. Or so it would seem, listening to the wails of outrage from frequent travelers for whom ...

R Donaldson - February 2009 Water, Water It is most of what our bodies are made of, in some way included in ...

The imagination is the mind's active scratch pad--our source of daydreams. Here we try out new ideas, we work out conflicts, ...

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 ...

The above tagline (without the single quotes, of course) used to be one of the ways Elizabeth Clare Prophet was billed when appearing on ...

Proving once again that irrationality and science cover-ups are not the exclusive province of the religious right, the UK's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has "instructed ...

"Socialism, Communism, go to Russia!" shouts the woman wearing a cross. "He should die," "Socialist Swine," "Terrorist." These are not the epithets of a ...

A seal is supposed to separate the desirable from the undesirable, like an airlock on a spacecraft, a ring on a piston, or a ...

An article on CNN describes the "plight" of a man who doesn't like wind turbines: He hates the sight and he hates ...

Carbon Belch Day: When Morons Attack Conservative grassroots group Grassfire.org wants people to waste as much energy as possible on June 12 by "hosting a barbecue, going ...

Three simple words. "No, they don't." A few weeks ago, I was having a conversation with a former CUT member who I hadn't ...

There's only one word for what unordained Catholic minister Justin Fatica does, and that's sadomasochism. Not in a sexual sense, of course, but in the sense ...