Tribes…
For students of human behavior and its relationship to politics, this is absolutely unsurprising. The findings indicate that male voters exhibit biological responses to the realignment of a country’s...
View ArticleRevisiting Ralph
In my younger years, I carried Ralph Waldo Emerson in very high esteem. This was before my conversion to Unitarian Universalism. In fact, a friend of mine, whom I carried in very high esteem, spoke...
View ArticleSo whats going on in your neighborhood?
For once in my life, I am actually speechless. My beloved hometown makes national headlines yet once again! Read full post, see embedded content, and comment here! Posted in: Community, jadarm, Media,...
View ArticleRetributive Justice Again
I rail periodically against retribution as a notion of justice here on the blog. I suppose it is an artifact of my interests in religion, human nature, and criminal justice that keeps this topic always...
View ArticleThere’s a name for that…
Something does not seem quite right. The most powerful man in the world, John F. Kennedy, was taken out by a lone nutjob of no previous consequence? A jet flies into the pentagon and yet the expected...
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Numbers Game
Taxes and Tea Parties by the numbers. Some of that may be a little silly or tenuous… but over all it might put some things into perspective. I’d like to see added… Percent of families that pay no...
View ArticleDunning-Kruger revisited
The teaser at Boing-Boing for this ABC Science article on the Dunning-Kruger effect caught my eye because of the last sentence quoted there. I’ll include the last three for context – “It beautifully...
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Draw Wrong Mohammed Day
I screwed up. I thought it was Draw Mohammed Bouyeri Day. So, this is what I toiled away for: So… anyway… The best compilation is at Friendly Atheist. I began disapproving of the project on the grounds...
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Ur Doing it Wrong!
One News Now (of Homosexual eases into 100 final at Olympic trials fame) still has an anti-gay streak (in the sense that a one-trick pony has a one-trick streak). But they haven’t gotten much better at...
View ArticleIf I was a Murfreesboro Minister
Or NYC area, doesn’t matter. Doesn’t matter much what denomination… or even if I was the chairman of programs at the local humanist group. This is what I’d do. I’d have a big chicken dinner on a Sunday...
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