26 Articles

Saturday, April 5, 2008
If You Had a Divine Purpose, How Would You Know?
(3 comments) Do you believe in divine purpose? With my background in science and a deep skepticism forged in a strict religious background, I have my doubts. Yet who can deny that the universe seems to speak to us when we listen? My friend Christine Crawford speaks in more traditional terms than I, but I encourage you to hear her out...

Wednesday, February 27, 2008
The Starving Society
(13 comments) And how it is brought to you by those opposing taxation and redistribution.

Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Save a Soul: Nip a Gay in the Bud!
(54 comments) "Yesterday in the bathroom (in front of the mirror), I wiggled my body very rapidly, making my genitals bounce up and down. I get a little bit of that feeling mentioned above as I write this. After I did this, I immediately asked forgiveness of God, went in the shower but did it again there."

Sunday, July 29, 2007
Bulldozing the Garden
(3 comments) We are living in a madhouse of our own creation, a full-blown insane asylum, a loony bin of global proportions. We are ravishing the earth, sucking its resources dry, destroying the very support systems that all life on the planet depends on. What can be done to stop bulldozing the Garden of Earth?

Thursday, June 28, 2007
Why Not Assassinate?
(81 comments) I asked this question in a comment recently and got a pretty good spanking. Which made me think all the harder about the question. Here are my answers, along with some from other OpEd readers.

Saturday, April 7, 2007
Everything You Need to Know About God*
(1 comments) A comment on Peter Michaelson's "Psychological Expose' of Creationism's Secret Genesis," which evolved into an article of its own.

Friday, February 16, 2007
My Apologies to Elizabeth Kucinich
(2 comments)

Friday, February 9, 2007
On Winning Hearts and Minds
(1 comments) How to do what Bush yaks about: win hearts and minds.

Wednesday, February 7, 2007
Global Warming: The Cold, Hard Facts?
(11 comments) I found this scientific gem online yesterday, and felt strongly that it should be shared with the world. I was so excited about it, I could not help but add a few comments of my own.

Tuesday, February 6, 2007
Eh? Ran what? Part 2
(3 comments) Further reflections on "Thou Shalt Not Kill." May you draw your own conclusion...

Monday, February 5, 2007
Eh? Ran what?
(19 comments) Who do you support? Conscientious objectors or those who would kill their fellow humans?

Saturday, February 3, 2007
Open Letter to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Frances Beincke of the NRDC:
(9 comments) Ecoterrorism at its finest!

Tuesday, January 16, 2007
How to Recognize a Particularly Insane Individual
Today's lesson is about how to recognize one particularly insane individual. I feel the need to write this because there are still a number of people who have not recognized that this individual is insane-and by that word, I mean wholly detached from the world around him, and thus exceedingly dangerous given the power at his disposal.

Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Is George Bush Insane?
Today's lesson is about how to recognize one particularly insane individual. I feel the need to write this because there are still a number of people who have not recognized that this individual is insane-and by that word, I mean wholly detached from the world around him, and thus exceedingly dangerous given the power at his disposal.

Friday, January 12, 2007
How to Recognize a Human Scumbag
(10 comments) Today's lesson is about how to recognize a human scumbag.

Friday, January 5, 2007
My New Year's Wish: Let 2 + 2 = 4
Rob Kall asked that we articulate some of our positive visions for the future. Here are a few of mine, but feel free to add your own.

Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Hold your hat! Here we go again... two morons, one sore loser lead the way.

Sunday, December 10, 2006
To collapse or to continue?
(3 comments) No more helium-- a sign of global warming? Do we have the brains and the will to avert the disasters coming our way? A harbinger of events to come bears a message.

Monday, November 20, 2006
Open Letter to Howard Dean and the DNC
(4 comments) Your Democratic Vision for America could use some flesh on its bones, Howard.

Friday, November 17, 2006
Has Jesus Come and Gone?
(1 comments)

Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Why have kids?
(8 comments) Cogitation that may lead to agitation regarding why we have kids.

Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Kill your family! Torch your house! Then go shoot yourself!
(12 comments)

Tuesday, July 18, 2006
Alternatives to Extinction*: Learning Together
Is it possible for twelve year olds from around the world to learn in the same classroom? If so, might they continue doing so, rather than becoming soldiers or suicide bombers for power brokers?

Friday, June 16, 2006
Alternatives to Extinction*
Some thoughts on how we might prevent our own extinction.

Tuesday, June 6, 2006
The DNA Frame
(1 comments) Continuation of the DNA of the human species is our most pressing problem. The issue of human extinction is a real one, and yet one that is generally ignored or shoved aside.

Wednesday, April 26, 2006
Response to Osama bin Laden
(3 comments) Osama bin Laden addressed the American people on several occasions. As far as I know, no one's taken the time to write him back.