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Here’s a recent interview from Guernica: “Chomsky Half Full” My favorite part: Guernica: So what are you recommending? Noam Chomsky: I thi...

I don’t know much about Andrew Sullivan. I know enough to be sure that we’re not in agreement politically or in terms of religion. But when ...

It’s in the air. Already mine is the Quote of the Day ! Thanks, Rational Rant . I’ve looked through some of your earlier posts, but I don’t ...

Someone recently linked to this list over at Pharyngula : “The 50 Most Brilliant Atheists of All Time.” For some reason, I can’t get the pa...

I’m writing a longer post about argumentation, but I’m going to leave this one first. The following (not entirely consistent) insinuations a...

In the same week that Obama accepts the Nobel Prize, his administration has told the people of Honduras that they have no rights. No right t...

Your administration is taking the wrong side, doing the wrong thing. You have not acted in good faith toward the people struggling for justi...

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There are reports that an agreement has been reached, following pressure from US envoys, between Zelaya and the koupists in Honduras for hi...

It's been a frustrating week - talks on, talks off, old and new deadlines ( here's another worthwhile interview with Zelaya , this o...

or my mother's cellar lies this... tape. :/ From many years ago, when it was being sold to raise funds. Admirable , and catchy.

I just posted this over at Pharyngula 's neverending thread , but I'm so bewildered by Dawkins' attitude and that of some of hi...

One more try: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOlgI6GV228

It’s been another week in which reports from Honduras have focused on a handful of politicians within and without and largely ignored what’s...

She coulda been a contender . Instead, a one-way ticket to Palookaville . Don't count us out. (By the way, I can't seem to find the ...