Notes regarding our 'democracy themepark.'
That person won’t “vote Obama out of office,” because it’s his second term. —–Due to campaign financing and lobbying, the differences between the two candidates […]
Notes on utopian thinking
As a vegan myself, I suspect it actually doesn’t help to assume the historical inevitability of our cause. —- We can work toward the type […]
Martin Luther King Jr and becoming a better atheist
Last year the The American Conservative published an article about the US war in Vietnam. Reading it reminded me of the speech Martin Luther King […]
Columbus Day and shaking off our delusions of cultural superiority
Also see Goodbye, Columbus Day by Patrick J. Buchanan in The American Conservative. I wrote my comments below in response to his article and to […]
Tensions between the conservationist and vegan communities ?
See Facebook The other person’s (Donna Brooks) comments are in quotations. “You challenge people to become vegan, don’t you? >You give them compelling reasons that […]
Islamophobia
Atheist writer Sam Harris makes a sweeping indictment against hundreds of millions of human beings by claiming in his book, Letter to a Christian Nation, […]
Correspondence regarding religion
See also From the Facebook thread linked above, this is from a person named Bob Calvin: ” 1. As a Christian I will speak as […]
Queer notes
10-22-2016 Subconscious sexism impedes my romance with women ? Maybe I’ve subconsciously viewed women as having less intellectual depth than men and thereby have bonded […]
Science, compared to religion, as a means to 'knowing'
My comments in response to yours are in brackets, with dashes separting sentences to help with ease of reading. Thanks . Tom your too intellectual […]
Regarding the I'll Ride With You Twitter campaign in Australia
Waging Nonviolence In the Al Jazeera article you link, Nazry Bahrawi refutes the misconception that Muslims have failed to denounce acts of violence such as […]