The rhetoric that accompanied Obama’s election included much from the downsized Republicans about looking forward to working with the new president and coming to grips with national problems in the spirit of a fresh start.  However, the stimulus package—which may well be too big—h...

It’s like Clint Eastwood has come to town and all the bad guys are hiding under the tables or in closets. President Obama is striking down one stupid rule after another his predecessor left behind.  It’s a martial arts level kung fu pen-fest, signing (or consigning) the detritus of ignorance fr...

The obsession the Right has had for lo these many years with people’s sexuality has received a final “gift” from the Bush Administration. This is like grade school stuff.  It’s classic “If we don’t tell them about it, they won’t want it” thinking. Man...

I watched a good portion of Bush’s last press conference and couldn’t help thinking it was an audition for the part of a recovering junkie recently fallen off the wagon.  It wasn’t the words so much as the body language and facial expressions that held my attention.  Surreal?  H...

We have all been through one cycle after another of debate with someone who insists that science is a religion. This is a tiresome argument on one level because it is one with all sorts of things that fall under the category of “I know it when I see it.”  But on another level, it’...

JANUARY 4, 2009 Public Memorial Service for the Late “First Lady of Star Trek� Majel Barrett Roddenberry Cast Members and Fans Come Out to Celebrate and Remember Roddenberry’s Life WHO: Eugene “Rod� Roddenberry, son of Gene & Majel Roddenberry and CEO of Roddenberry Productions, will h...

It would seem according to this report that University and College presence of Intelligent Design is on its deathbed.  Perhaps this is premature, but if true it would signal that the basic inability of ID to support its own conclusions are now becoming evident to all but the thoroughly committed. A...

I ran across this interesting post recently on Deltoid concerning a list of (supposedly) 650 “scientists” who deny Global Warming is real (or at least, that it’s our fault in any way).  Inhofe, of course, is Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma, champion of one of the brightest red st...

Here is a link to an excellent essay by two of my best friends.  It talks about how labeling plays out in both art and real life and how labels are both irrelevant and destructive. I attended that workshop they refer to, Clarion, and that’s where I met them.  That was in 1988.  It was a tra...

As expected, certain mouths are already looking for ways to tear down Obama and all he stands for, even though—perhaps especially because—they don’t know just what that is.  It is disheartening. It makes me want to sit them down in a chair from which they cannot move and ask them,...