For three decades I've puzzled about the idea held by Christian Fundamentalists that the Bible must be proven absolutely and literally true in every way, or else Christianity is false. The latter clause being accepted as silly, therefore most science of the 19th and 20th century is patently on the…
Many people still bristle at the idea that chimpanzees can have "cultures." The evidence is accumulating, however, as documented in "Almost Human," an article found in the April, 2008 edition of National Geographic. The article was written by Mary Roach, with incredible photos by Franz Lanting. In 2007, an Iowa…
Ask David M. Walker, the Comptroller General of the United States and head of GAO. Here's what he said in a Dec 17, 2007 speech at the National Press Club: "If the federal government was a private corporation and the same report came out this morning, our stock would be…
In his earlier post, Erich pointed out the justifiable contempt we should all have for guys like McClellan & Powell, who repeatedly lied to the American people about the Iraq threat and helped lead our nation into an unnecessary and horribly costly invasion. However, I believe McClellan's revelations expose a…
This is great news! The U.S. Senate has slapped down the FCC's December 2007 invitation to allow big media corporations to further consolidate their media holdings. Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), a co-sponsor of the bill disapproving of the FCC invitation to further consolidate big media, had urged the House to…