PROGRESS IS (?) A COMFORTABLE DISEASE
Stephen Hawking (author of A Brief History of Time) a few weeks ago advised his fellow earth-dwellers to begin probing the sky for another planet with livable conditions much like…
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GOD ON FACEBOOK
I ‘liked’ (as to click on it) the Facebook page, God, and I have some things to say on the topic. I find it funny that someone would have created…
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WITHOUT HATRED
Virginia Woolf was not above envying those writers whose work she held in esteem and whose lives were somewhat less respectable than her own.
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Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011)
The thing that I admired most about Hitchens is the thing that irritated many people about him—he would not follow the party line.
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RED OR DEAD?
For some mysterious reason men cannot seem to carry on their existence without forming a kind of partnership with their gods, and when these gods fail them, as all gods…
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PACIFICISM TRIUMPHANT?
Being confronted with the fact of one’s material insecurity can constitute one of those rude awakenings that are generally only envisioned during a nightmare
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The Enemy of the Good: The Social Impact of the American Prison Part 2
Even if our economy were healthy enough to sustain our current incarceration rate, there are ways in which our current system of justice can actually contribute to social deviance.
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Amiss America
…her boobs were too big. I’m assuming they meant distracting. Apparently that’s why the church choir wears robes.
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Sufferin’ Succotash
To be fair, those in Leigh Anne’s communal circle are not unfamiliar with stressful situations. After attending college on cheerleading and beauty pageant scholarships and marrying into families of Southern wealth and imperialistic opinions, these women deliberated over whether to co-mingle the inheritance of daddy’s fortunes with that of their husbands.
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