How did the "free market" fail us? How about this? It was a matter of dogma over evidence, a theme that connects the blots--the long string of massive failures caused by conservative Republicans over the past eight years. In an article called "White House Philosophy Stoked Mortgage Bonfire," the NYT…
In this 2006 lecture at TED, philosopher Daniel Dennett (Breaking the Spell) takes on the "brilliant" contemporary redesign of religion by Rick Warren, author of The Purpose Driven Life. After acknowledging that Warren's book is, indeed, "brilliant" (it has sold 30 million copies and motivated comparable numbers of people), Dennett…
Happiness is contagious, according to a new study: New research shows that in a social network, happiness spreads among people up to three degrees removed from one another. That means when you feel happy, a friend of a friend of a friend has a slightly higher likelihood of feeling happy…
Isn't it time that we do away with the sentence, "He/She is doing computer work?" It made sense 20 years ago, when everyone was spending inordinate amounts of time trying to get their computers to work at all. But now we use our computers to actually accomplish an amazing variety…
Here's Andrew Sullivan discussing alleged religious leader Rick Warren's strange position regarding George W. Bush's policy regarding Torture. To Sullivan's comment I say "Amen."