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Frank Rich has written a wonderful piece. With thanks to Balloon Juice.

Beginning in the ’60s there has been a marked change in the way many people view women and the feminine, and this shift quickly influenced American religion.  After a lull, feminism began to regain its moral energy in the 1960s.  As it did it quickly diversified.  Most of these forms of feminism accepted an assumption…

When I did a couple of blogs a while back, here and here,  on ‘conservatives’ as having, on balance, not really advanced far beyond a tribal identity, some of my readers got upset. Try these recent gems of wisdom regarding how ‘conservatives’ see the rest of us.  We really have a serious problem in this…

I want to return to a discussion of the scientific method that arose during discussions following my post on animal morality. That will be also set the stage for part 2 of Paganism and America’s Future, as well as keeping a promise to Franklin.

As far back as I can remember, I’ve heard people warning me about all the bad consequences that will happen because I indulge so deeply in my favorite drug. It is with great pleasure that the following has recently been discovered. I sure hope the research survives scrutiny!

New Age Cowboy sparked some additional thoughts through his comments in my previous post, thoughts that I think merit a post all their own.  Or rather a series of three.  This one as foundational, another will follow on the Sacred Feminine, and another on Nature.

When I read these two articles about how we are emptying our oceans  and exterminating sharks not even on purpose, but as thoughtless “bycatch” while we exterminate other things,  I was led into musing about the kind of world we live in.  (Thanks to the Schwarz Report)  Not at the political level, but far more…

Sebastopol had its annual fireworks show last night, on the 3rd.  (That way people can take in even more fireworks nearby, on July 4.)  Analy high school’s athletic field and bleachers were filled by hordes of happy spectators celebrating our country’s birthday as well as having a very good time.  Standing for the Star Spangled…

The rapid appearance of books by atheists in the United States is a predictable result of the rise of intolerant religion.  Nothing turns people off to religion faster than self-righteous fanatics and power junkies intent on telling you how to live, and claiming to do it in God’s name.    If Andrew Sullivan is right,…

California is entering into a financial abyss, an abyss of its own creation.  The budgetary disaster that is eliminating health care and summer school for thousands of children, closing state parks, and leading to state workers and small businesses being paid with IOUs is the result of poor to stupid decisions by state voters and…
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