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...
"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...
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...
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...
"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...
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...
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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...
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...
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*...
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...
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"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...
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...
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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...
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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