Pages
Recent Posts
Subscribe Via Email
Recent Comments
- Pack of Jackals | Rachel's Musings on Of dragons and gremlins
- Henry Clive on Serious Questions about the Stanford Prison Experiment
- Which Flavor of Sexism is YOUR Favorite? « Sex with Timaree on Neuroscience and Sexism
- Tonya on My story as a Single
- How History Shapes Us | Rachel's Musings on Rape, Trauma, and the Rewiring of the Brain
Categories
Archives
Climate Change
Economics
Feminist Sites
Growth Critiques
Singles Resources
Skeptics Sites
Societal Change
Women Skeptics
Work-Life Balance
Z Useful Sites
Meta
-
-
-
-
-
Monthly Archives: February 2008
Musing about Paul Kurtz’s Ideas
In the latest issue of free inquiry, Paul Kurtz published an editorial about his idea for multi-secularism. Now, I know that Kurtz is a very important figure in the secular humanist movement. I certainly appreciate all the work he has … Continue reading
Posted in Humanism, Philosophy, Religion, Skeptical musings
Tagged atheism, Paul Kurtz
Leave a comment
Teachers are disciplined for booing an anti-gay speaker
Sam Harris writes in his book The End of Faith with an eye-opening candor about the dangers of taking political correctness too far. His position can probably be summarized well with a quote I saw somewhere: “You don’t want to … Continue reading
Ugly Politics
I guess it had to happen sooner or later but it is still rather disturbing: The racists and white supremacists are coming out of hiding and are starting to attack Obama, including with threats to his life. At this point, … Continue reading
Medical skepticism
After reading an excellent article on homeopathy in Skeptical Inquirer, I have now completely chucked that “treatment.” It is indeed just water (or sugar or alcohol). There is nothing there that could possibly impact anybody’s health. This seems clear cut … Continue reading
What is in a word?
Apparently, there’s a debate going on in the non-religious community about what we ought to call ourselves: atheists, humanists, freethinkers, brights, somethings… Since I’ve never really been too keen on labeling myself as something forever, I usually take the labels … Continue reading
Posted in Humanism, Philosophy, Religion
Tagged atheism, freethinking, Humanism, labeling
Leave a comment
American Unreason
The New York Times reports on Susan Jacoby‘s book “The Age of American Unreason.” It is interesting reading the book review – even though it is a rather dumbed down version of a book review – after watching “Friends of … Continue reading