Gangnam style for human rights

I think we are all very much well aware of Gangnam style, the song and video by the South Korean rapper, Psy. Of course, Gangnam style has a strong chance of being the Macarena of our time. If you are too young to remember the Macarena, google it or ask your uncle or older...

Judge sentences teen to church in Oklahoma

What do you think about a judge as part of a sentencing deal, mandating attendence to a mosque for 10 years? If you are the average American, you would be up and arms. If you are many on the Christian right-wing, you might even offer death threats to the judge. But Judge Mike...

New humanist website for kids, plus new atheist book

KidsWithoutGod.com is a new website launched by the American Humanist Association. It is an outreach to younger children and teens when it comes to humanist issues. We all know that small children hear constant pro-Christian rhetoric throughout their young lives. Indeed, in...

No atheists in Congress and religion and capitalism killed people

Peter Stark, the only avowed atheist in Congress, lost his bid for re-election. Ironically, another progressive beat him, and beat him in part by attacking Stark's vote against re-affirming "One Nation, under God" in our Pledge of Allegiance. This shouldn't be in the Pledge...

First gay weddings at West Point Military Academy

The first same sex wedding has happened at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y. Actually, it is now two weddings because the first was recently at the Old Cadet Chapel, and the wedding between Penelope Gnesin and Brenda Sue Fulton is at the newer Cadet Chapel....

Gangnam style for human rights

I think we are all very much well aware of Gangnam style, the song and video by the South Korean rapper, Psy. Of course, Gangnam style has a strong chance of being the Macarena of our time. If you are too young to remember the Macarena, google it or ask your uncle or older...

Republican Senators vote against rights for the Disabled

38 Republican Senators voted against the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The no votes included Wisconsin's own U.S. Senator Ron Johnson. Less than 1/4 of Republican Senators voted for the Convention, even though retired Republican...

Why Glenn Beck knows nothing when it comes to logic and religion

I was listening to Glenn Beck, an ultra-rightwing radio talk show host and I must say I am amazed at his ignorance of basic history. He was talking about a Kansas town named Buhler which had in a city park a logo with the city's name and a cross. The organization that...

New humanist website for kids, plus new atheist book

KidsWithoutGod.com is a new website launched by the American Humanist Association. It is an outreach to younger children and teens when it comes to humanist issues. We all know that small children hear constant pro-Christian rhetoric throughout their young lives. Indeed, in...

Red Dawn, and the absurd premise of who invades the U.S.

When I was a kid I went to see the 1984 movie, Red Dawn at a drive-in. I was still naive enough at the time to believe that the Soviets could invade the U.S., as the film shows. Heck, the Soviets might not even have had a navy that could have invaded Canada. But, at least...

No atheists in Congress and religion and capitalism killed people

Peter Stark, the only avowed atheist in Congress, lost his bid for re-election. Ironically, another progressive beat him, and beat him in part by attacking Stark's vote against re-affirming "One Nation, under God" in our Pledge of Allegiance. This shouldn't be in the Pledge...

Why government isn't an arm of religion

I was listening to conservative talk radio yesterday and the host re-played a caller of his from earlier in the week. The caller was religious and did not believe that her religion and her church should have same sex marriages. That was against her personal religious...

Victory for Obama, gay marriage and marijuana legalization!

Yes, President Obama was re-elected. I guess Mitt Romney running on calling the federal emergency agency of our nation, FEMA, as immoral, didn't work out too well after Hurricane Sandy. We won't have Romney commanding us like he commanded young women when he was a Mormon...

Vote humanist values and support Tammy Baldwin

I opened my newspaper yesterday and saw the anti-semitic bigot Billy Graham telling me to "vote biblical values." Good idea. We do need to vote the bible, especially passages such as (Deuteronomy 22:28-29 NLT): "If a man is caught in the act of raping a young woman who is...