The recent Princeton University Press book by former Harvard president Derek Bok titled “The Politics of Happiness: What Government Can Learn from the New Research on Well-Being” got some reviewers unhappy, as this article in the Atlanticwire.com reports. I have… Read More ›
Month: March 2010
Dawkins says, “Ratzinger is the Perfect Pope”
I am doing my bit to show how terrible the monotheistic organized cults religions are. Richard Dawkins answers the question “Should the pope resign?” with a definite “No.” He writes in yesterday’s Washington Post:
The Commodification of Education
I was telling my friend CJ about a presentation I made yesterday to the trustees of a school. The proposal was to hand over the management of the school to a firm that will manage the school for a fee…. Read More ›
Please if you are still alive . . .
“I see dead people,” whispers the little guy in the movie “The Sixth Sense.” That must be very unfortunate for the ability is of dubious utility and seeing dead people walking about certainly would scare the crap out of the… Read More ›
Harris, Hitchens and Gadkari
Two men I admire most are Harris and Hitchens. Awesome speakers and writers, they have the courage to say it like they see it. In an age where politically correct mealy mouthed prevarication oozes out of spineless leaders leaving a… Read More ›
World Water Day 2010
Today is World Water Day. Having evolved in a watery world, nearly all life on earth needs water to survive. In the short run humanity is going to face an acute shortage of water. But not in the long run.
The Secrets of Dee-Quack Chopra
If you have not read the modestly titled Huffington Post piece — The Future of God: A New Theory of the Divine — by Dee-Quack Deepak Chopra, you have missed out on world-class intellectual nonsense.
The Devil in the Vatican
There is a very famous woman in India who is a Roman Catholic. Roman Catholics take as their undisputed leader the Bishop of Rome, aka the Pope, or Papa. You’d have thought that in this day and age, people would… Read More ›
These are some of my un-favorite things
When someone reads out an email address and reads “@” as “at the rate of.” That reveals a marked inability to deal with symbols.
How does one reach the starting place?
Our journeys have a destination. But they have a starting place also.
