Two weeks ago I got involved in a discussion with two local and very sharp “skeptics,” Mark and Paul, concerning science and religion.  The exchange took place in the Wacco Bulletin Board, a wonderful local online communication media for Sonoma and Marin Counties here in California.  An online discussion  had gotten started on science and…

These people are fluent in the only language most politicians seem to understand: money. From the Environmental News Service “The world’s largest investors today issued a statement calling on the United States and other governments to ‘act now to catalyze development of a low-carbon economy and to attract the vast amount of private capital necessary for…

Massachusetts stands a genuine chance of electing Scott Brown as a Republican Senator in next week’s election.  No, the state is not going red, conservative, or Republican.  The reason is more interesting than a sudden case of state-wide insanity.

UPDATE below Raymond Joseph, Haiti’s Ambassador to the US, has done a wonderful job debunking  Pat Robertson’s idiotic comments about Haiti’s supposed pact with the devil.  Using Robertson’s logic, the devil also wanted the US to acquire the Louisiana Purchase and 13 new states, and also Latin America to become free from Spanish colonialism.  Both…

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