Chris Hitchens, atheists and fighter for freethought, has died

Christopher Hitchens died yesterday, December 15. Mr. Hitchens had battled cancer for quite a while. He was an atheist and a supporter of reason and humanity over dogma and superstition. He was an excellent writer and debater. His book, God is not Great, I found a...

From Madoff to Murdoch to Greece: Whatever Happened to Ethics?

"When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery."Maxim Gorky (1868-1936), Russian novelist, author, and playright The former head of the biggest stock exchange in the world swindles his clients. The editors and journalists of Britain's largest...

Political morality

Jenice Armstrong addresses the Weiner situation head on and with common sense. I will let her words speak for her. I would add that American voters should hold elected officials to the highest standards of moral...

Affiliation and Morality

By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" The Anglo-Saxon members of the motley "Coalition of the Willing" were proud of their aircraft's and missiles' "surgical" precision. The legal (and moral) imperative to spare the lives of innocent...

"The Moral Landscape": Why science should shape morality

"Religion fails because it separates questions of right and wrong and good and evil from the actual reality of human and animal suffering. The Catholic Church is more concerned about preventing contraception than...

Money or Life? Which is more important?

  Where has our outrage gone? There was a time when a crime involving children was cause for an outcry. The desire for revenge against the monsters that harm our children. But lately, it seems, as if a...

Japan embraces pedophiles and incests in manga world

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Tap Water Gives Catholic Student Herpes

Last night, the local news ticker noted that Catholic University in Washington, D.C. is constructing the largest solar panel capability in the district. A short while later, I ran into three friends from Catholic whom had heard the news. None were enthused. "Yeah, I...

Iraqi Militia find way to target innocent gays - the Internet

Torture and killing of innocent Iraqi gays and lesbians has reached a critical state, and Iraqi militia have found an efficient way to target innocent gays - the Internet -, with no intervention from the Iraqi or...

TEA Party Debate- Zero tolerance of Breach of the Public Trust

The topic of this debate revolves around tolerance and intolerance of moral, ethical, legal and political trespasses by elected officials. In this story, I may sometimes refer to these collectively as "ethos*...

Should The Government Pay Students Not To Fornicate?

A state-sponsored pregnancy prevention program at the University of North Carolina is paying girls $1.00 a day not to get pregnant. Since it takes two to make a baby, shouldn't young men be getting this WELFARE also? If it was reversed, wouldn't NOW nags be crying...

EMIRATS ARABES UNIS: Domestic workers face abusive employers

"DUBAI, 2 July 2006 (IRIN) - On an almost daily basis, immigrant domestic workers in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), face mistreatment and sometimes physical abuse, according to human rights activists.Noor arrived...

'Christian Nymphos' and the Dawn of the e-Sex Revolution and the New Libertines

The past eleven years of rising internet use has led to a quiet sexual revolution in our mores and ways. Attitudes for most people have become significantly more relaxed about sex and sexuality. And across the...

Bloggers Respond to Mass. Gay Marriage law Repeal

After the state Senate voted in Boston to repeal a 1913 law barring out-of-state gay couples from marrying in the state, people from all walks of life began posting about it online. Lots of people from both sides of the issue are blogging about this issue, in this case you...

From Prostitute to Pop Star--Ashley Dupree

 Ashley Dupree, the 22-year old prostitute who "allegedly" offered her wares to ex New York Governor, Eliot Spitzer, has been officially promoted.  It was reported that Dupree has offers coming out of...

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