Mr. Deity and Lucy discuss Jesus’s improvisations while being down here on Earth and in the process reveal why Ayn Rand was put on this Earth. [Read more…]
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Mr. Deity and Lucy discuss Jesus’s improvisations while being down here on Earth and in the process reveal why Ayn Rand was put on this Earth. [Read more…]
I will be traveling for the next few days to attend a college reunion in Washington DC and so blogging may be light since my access to the internet may be spotty as well as me being busy meeting up with old friends whom I have not seen for decades. Unfortunately due to Hurricane Sandy, some of them have had their flights cancelled and so cannot attend.
Blogging should be back to normal by Monday.
Some time ago, I discussed the question of whether Sherlock Holmes could be classed as a psychopath based on his behavior in the stories. In pursuing this question a little more, I came across an article in the Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders that elaborated on how psychopathy manifests itself. [Read more…]
Stephen Colbert points out how the oligarchy seems to be pulling out all stops in their effort to get Mitt Romney elected by threatening their employees with dire consequences if Barack Obama should win, and are even forcing them to take part in his campaign. And it is all legal, apparently. [Read more…]
Those of you who follow politics closely may have noticed a curious feature about the current state of discussion about the presidential election.
One is that the national polls and the so-called objective fundamentals models favored by political scientists show a close race between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama as to who will get the majority of the national vote. [Read more…]
In England, the Reading University Atheist, Humanist and Secularist Society (RAHS) was kicked out of a fair aimed at first-year students when they tried to advertise a forthcoming debate on the topic “Should we respect religion?” Their offense? As part of their display, they had in their stall a pineapple with the label Mohammed. [Read more…]
In my post on the Cuban missile crisis, I spoke about how the myths that were perpetuated in dealing with that crisis, of America being successful because it was rigid and unyielding and forced the other side to back down, has cast a long shadow over how to deal with future crises. [Read more…]
Among other things, he points out that when it comes to foreign policy, there is only one country that matters, and that is Israel. [Read more…]
As Halloween approaches, parents will take the usual precautions to prevent their children from being harmed by dangerous psychopaths who they fear will try to use the treats as vehicles for their attacks. But all that fear is based on myths. [Read more…]