God’s attractive nuisance: the Tree of Knowledge

Imagine for a moment that you go into your neighbor's home one day and discover a large homemade bomb sitting in the middle of his living room.  "Don't touch that." your neighbor tells you, "If you do, the bomb will explode and our entire block will be destroyed."  How would…

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What’s A Little Eavesdropping Among Patriots?

Bush declares that the government is not reading (listening) to the content of the phone messages being tapped by our security apparatus.  He's probably trying to figure out why people are so upset.  After all, he's trying to protect us from terrorists. Oddly, I believe him when he says this. …

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Why so angry about a fictional movie, Vatican?

The Vatican is going a little too crazy about The Da Vinci Code, it seems.   The Vatican’s claim is that the movie is “full of calumnies, offences and historical and theological errors regarding Jesus, the Gospels and the Church.” It would seem that in a work of FICTION, errors of…

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Hormones + antibiotics + no pasture = “Organic”?

I just received a notice from Consumer's Union (publisher of Consumer Reports) that infuriates me.  I have to say, though, this USDA proposal is par for the course for this administration.  This particular proposal would allow corporations to say that milk is "organic" when it is not.  As one of the many people…

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