At Daylight Atheism, Ebonmuse puts Rand's theory of objectivism under a bright analytical light and finds it wanting: Since Objectivists reject all notions of a social safety net, it's natural to ask what would happen to the poor and needy in an Objectivist society. This is Ayn Rand's answer: "If…
Where are all the historical accounts of all of those dead people who climbed out of their graves and mingled with normal living people on Good Friday? There's only one plausible answer. There are no such historical accounts because the Bible is incorrect. Formerly dead people never crawled out of…
I sit and watch the fluffy flakes descend this Easter morn. My cat peers in and loudly states his distaste of this dawn. I let him in and brush his fur with bare hand now quite dank. His pleasure shows with a loud purr but, "Phew!"…
Today is Easter. Colorful eggs (pagan tradition), bunnies and chicks (pagan symbols), and consuming dangerous levels of foamy sweetener in scary yellow bites (Peeps™). Let's not forget the "meaning behind it": The anniversary of yet another demi-god risen from the dead. I enjoy this take on that subject. Anyway, why…
I've sometimes wondered this, and this article in Discover Magazine presents the answer. Four percent of men are raising another man's child: From the clinics to the courts, routine DNA tests uncover genetic identities—and even family secrets. British public-health researchers examined nearly 50 years of medical data from around the…