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UPDATE below. Robert Mathiesen makes a very important point in his comment on my Fundamentalism and Irrationality post, one this blog might have failed to emphasize adequately because it’s complex and because the ‘Christian’ Right is louder right now.  This mini-essay is an attempt to do the subject justice.  The decline of confidence in reason…

There is a wonderful thread on coffee right now over at Balloon Juice.  I know John knows his coffee, because like him I was a snob for Peets until I discovered Kalani.  I think Peets’ Major Dickinson’s Blend is one of the all time greats.

Conservative “pro-life” Christians, especially Texans, now have an interesting moral challenge.  Cameron Todd, an innocent man, was executed in Texas.  The facts of his innocence are overwhelming in this case.  For a start, see Huffingtonpost  as well as Barry Scheck’s report, also in Huffingtonpost. The full story is in the New Yorker. Many hard core…

I just came across a fascinating anecdote that might shed light on something that has long fascinated and horrified me about my country.  At a recent town-hall meeting in Iowa a local weekly quizzed attendees as to whether or not they could find Iraq on a map.  The reporter asked 40 pro-reform attendees and 40…

As many of you know, occasionally I have bounced someone from this list, or barred them from a particular thread – in which case they usually take their duckies and go home.  Is this controlling on my part?

Haven’t had one for a while.  This one’s yours.

Some time earlier this blog was a scene of considerable discussion as various self-described religious people attempted to justify torture.  A common claim as I remember was that it worked, that it saved American lives. Dick Cheney said that so far unreleased documents would exonerate him in that regard, and his craven lap dogs happily…

Here is the projected course of instruction for my Wicca 101 class, starting this in September.  Each numbered section will be at least one week long, sometimes longer.  It is biased towards a broadly British Traditionalist approach, and also is more shamanic in tone than many such classes would be.  This is because I know…

When I first became a Pagan I thought that we were primarily a new/old religious perspective that would better integrate human beings with the world and feminine values.  I still think that, but just what that means has continued to deepen. I have learned, and am continuing to learn, that I did not really understand…

As I promised, here is Part 2 of Robinson’s post. In it she discusses what people can do in the short run to forestall things getting further out of hand than they are.  She promises a Part 3, that will take a longer term perspective, and I’ll post a link when it appears.
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