A Grain of Salt in the Sahara
We’ve been torturing each other over religious doctrines and gods, skin colors and political opinions. Just think about it, we’ve even been killing each other over love!
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Mothers Not Heard
Ninety percent of mothers report work-family conflicts. Children complain more about exhausted parents than absent parents.
CISPA: Your Internet Service Provider and Your Rights
Called “the son of SOPA” by its critics, CISPA was designed to provide a safer Internet to its users; however, the approach that the government has taken to attain this goal is costing its users their privacy.
Critical Thinking for the Common Good
I learned that although the history of African-Americans is one filled with pain, we are survivors and have much to be proud of. In our veins, flow the blood of kings and queens who fought and died for their beliefs and who would be saddened by the state of their descendants who have forgotten where they come from.
North Carolina: Separate Is Not Equal
The North Carolina Legislature got the amendment on the ballot by a single vote last fall, one vote in the legislature that could ultimately lead to enormous and unpredictable damage. And LGBT couples and families are not the only citizens who would be negatively affected by passage.
Where Has Public Trust Gone?
Somewhere near the beginning of the 1980s, the small surge in trust came with the leadership of Ronald Reagan whose engaging and can-do personality gave Americans a lift, that is until deregulation led to the Savings and Loan debacle, which taxpayers bailed out…
The Cougar Phenomenon: Sex, Gender, and Love
By Alyssa Hart Cougars, Cubs, Sex! In recent years, provocative articles have drawn attention to the cougar-cub phenomenon. Discussions invariably focus on the sexual dimension of the relationships and jokingly — sometimes unflatteringly — portray cougars as older women who “prey” upon younger men, or cubs. These descriptions, however, miss the most significant and intriguing aspects of these relationships. While [...]
10 Steps to Winning Back Your Estranged Wife
If you’ve committed an offense against your wife so egregious that she’s more likely than not to leave you, do these things. (I wrote this for a friend whose wife had just left him. But of course these principles aren’t relationally gender-specific.) 1. Let her be. Respect her need to process this alone. If she wants your input, she’ll ask for it. [...]
The Universe from Nothing?
Colossal explosions and transformation of matter are often entertainment, military, or terrorist ventures in our contemporary world. They mostly represent things of destruction. Creation is something else: basically the concept that matter comes from nothing or is explained by Creation narratives in holy books. For older fundamentalist generations, such things are traditionally more apt to be things of myth or [...]
Celebrity Worship
…explains why people like Paris Hilton and the entire Kardashian family is famous, as well as many others. They’ve done absolutely nothing, contributed only their unrealistic expectation of beauty, and yet they’re given millions of dollars every year…
Accosted by a Christian
My wife Catherine and I used to study and practice Zen. One morning we were walking toward our car after a night spent sitting zazen at a Zen center with a dozen or so other would-be Buddhas. (Zazen is Zen meditation: you sit; you close your eyes; you try to disconnect from your thoughts; you try like crazy not to sneeze, cough or [...]
Not All Choice is Free: Why demand religious exemption for contraception, but not the death penalty, torture, or unjust war?
By Louis A. Ruprecht, Religion Dispatches On November 2, 1984, Velma Barfield became the first woman to be executed in the U.S. since 1962, and the first to be executed in the State of North Carolina after the nationwide moratorium on the death penalty was lifted in 1976. She was 52 years old. For those of us who had worked on [...]
Bring On The Night
I think of them as the ghosts of my soul. They visit me often in these sleepless hours. They are all the loved ones I miss and admired.
Instinct and Reason
By: Josh Bin Instinct is ingrained within us, it is the innate sense built into our genetic coding passed along thousands of years of evolution and beyond for the purpose of survival. We instinctively seek out pleasure, avoid pain, and conserve energy. Everything else within humanity is unique. Unique in the sense that it’s not necessarily seen within the animal [...]
Pagan Liberal
By: Cassandra Melano Pagan Liberal is a Facebook fan page for those with a particular taste in both theology and politics. It’s not for the faint of heart, nor the conservative of spirit. But rather embraces the openness of life through celebrating progressive liberal attitudes that extol the connectivity of existence rather than imposing mental barriers. As their current profile [...]
Is She Addicted to Pornography?
Hi John, You seem to be one to never shy away from difficult topics, so I hope this one isn’t too much. Something that has been plaguing me a long time is porn. You see I am a gay woman. A common response from within the LGBT community to others who are still “questioning” is to watch some porn. Try [...]
Sports
A Night of Magic in Libreville
(On a pragmatic note, readers should interchange my use of the word ‘football’ for ‘soccer’.) The 2012 African Cup of Nations concluded this evening, with the final squaring off Ivory Coast against Zambia. Did you watch it? This was a magnificently dramatic game between one of the best teams in world football and a team of unknowns and underdogs competing [...]
Science
Sex With Robots
Speaking of orgasm (that’s what this is all about anyway, right?) in a recent sex study researchers found that some women can bring themselves to orgasm just by thinking about it.
Entertainment
Sex With Robots
Speaking of orgasm (that’s what this is all about anyway, right?) in a recent sex study researchers found that some women can bring themselves to orgasm just by thinking about it.
Government
CISPA: Your Internet Service Provider and Your Rights
Called “the son of SOPA” by its critics, CISPA was designed to provide a safer Internet to its users; however, the approach that the government has taken to attain this goal is costing its users their privacy.
Extraterrestrial
The Secrets of UFO Engineering
By OcJim Over a long period of history, dating back to even before biblical times, tens of thousands of people have observed unknown objects in the skies. Some ten percent of modern sightings (2009 in Italy, above and 1927 in Oregon, below) of a phenomena we call UFOs, cannot be explained, at least by utilizing earthly knowledge and logic. (click [...]
Movie/film reviews
Pi
Pi expresses the universal desire to know the ineffable, and then to fail, go through a mental breakdown, and yet still try again.