Ebonmuse looks closely at the religious trends at Daylight Atheism. The recent rates of growth/decline are especially interesting. It turns out that the fast growing "religion" is secularlism. I have to wonder how much more quickly attitudes would change (away from systems involving supernatural claims) if the mainstream media would stop walking on…
Pants, by definition, are: an outer garment covering the body from the waist to the ankle, with a separate part for each leg. One cannot have one pant, although I suppose if one has only one leg and removes the extra part, one might have a pant? My dashboard dictionary…
That's the phrase we keep hearing from the Bush administration about the troop surge in Baghdad. "It's too soon to tell," "Let's give the plan time to work," "Just give it more time...." It has all the makings of a Biblical prophesy: peace will eventually return to Baghdad, the only…
A conservative federal appeals court harshly rebuked the Bush administration's anti-terrorism strategy Monday, ruling that U.S. residents cannot be locked up indefinitely as "enemy combatants" without being charged. Perhaps not surprisingly, the lone moronic dissenting vote was cast by a Bush appointee, on the bizarre rationale that American residents should be treated as…
We have already discussed how much one trillion dollars would buy. Well, the Boston Globe did its own story about this subject, using the more conservative figure of $456 billion (the estimated cost by September). My favorite is where it says $456 billion could have fed and educated the world's…