Usually when I address abortion and Biblical issues this blog is filled with many comments by the “pro-life” crowd.  I am struck with their silence many days after the initial posting of the entry two posts below this one. Perhaps we have found a an argument that will make these people actually think about the…

Glenn Greenwald has a very incisive dissection of the New York Times’ article on Egypt.  It gives thoughtful Americans plenty to think about.   It also looks as if the Republicans and Democrats who like democracy only when it is controlled by them and their paymasters may be getting ready to spread the old WMD…

Some of the flying monkeys on the right made fun of Costa Rican Christine Figueres for invoking the blessings of Ixchel, the ancient Mayan Goddess of reason, creativity, and weaving,  upon a meeting of the UN Convention on Climate Change being held in Cancun.    As the Washington Post reports, she told the deputies “May…

I got up this morning on the east side of California’s Sierras and made it into Sebastopol this afternoon.  A long trip, mostly good.  While among the canyons and cliffs the web was pretty far from my mind – inconvenient to use and an intrusion on more wonderful things.  Mostly I erased unwanted emails so…

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