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In his  wonderful A Sand County Almanac Aldo Leopold gives my favorite description of what it is to be uniquely human.  He observes that when the last passenger pigeon died, a species that once had darkened the North American sky with its numbers, many people felt badly, very badly.  If on the other hand passenger…

Read this report of the religious garbage American soldiers are exposed to, and shudder.  During the Thirty Years War between Catholics, Protestants, and anyone else unfortunate enough to be living in “Christian” Europe, “christian’ killed ‘Christian’ for not being the right kind of Christian.  As for non-Christians, they’d already killed most of those.  Millions died.…

A while back I posted on why big organizations tended to become criminal enterprises.  The immediate inspiration was more dirt coming to the surface on the Vatican’s protecting child molesters.  Now a genuine smoking gun verifies what any reasonable person already knew – the orders for cover-up, stonewalling, and deceit came from the Vatican even…

While I have been no Obama fan for a long time, his speech at Tucson’s memorial service for those murdered by Jared Loughner was wonderful. But this was even more a community event more than  a national event.  One of the less mentioned but I think important features of this service was the opening prayer by…
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