What indeed! Well, it may surprise some people, but we don't sit around eating freshly roasted babies in front of a roaring church fire and wiping our mouths with Bible pages while we plot the destruction of Christianity. For one thing, it's summer in Australia, which means it's bushfire season. No,…
No one else here has yet mentioned this foo-fah-rah that emerged in the Washington state capitol in Olympia, and is spreading to others. Several governors have allowed Nativity scenes to be erected in their Capitol rotundas. In Washington state, the regional atheists got permission to put up an adjacent sign…
How much does this happy-seeming family in Mali need? Not more than they have, it would seem. Or consider this Soweto family that lives in a 400 square foot home. Or consider this family from Bhutan. For comparison, here's a family from the U.S. and here's a family from Japan.…
I've been diligently avoiding the unavoidable visual and auditory warnings of the impending Yule since mid-October. But in the second half of December I'm ready to embrace "The Christmas Station" and decorations and such. However, I always preferred the offbeat things, like Weird Al's "Christmas at Ground Zero" [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsvZHHLQ8-c[/youtube] and…
With apologies in the lead for anyone feeling this is inappropriate, the Missouri Center for the Book has something for the poetry lover. Last January, Missouri was granted its first official Poet Laureate. At the inaugural celebration, Walter Bargen read a new poem for the occasion, a poem which spoke…