Archive for the ‘religion’ Category

American election choices: theocrat or socialist?

Monday, September 29th, 2008

Writes Ari Armstrong on why Libby Szabo lost his vote for Colorado's State Senate District 19: In races across the country, voters face terrible choices, with theocrats on one side, socialists on the other. Nearly a year ago, I sent a letter to various candidates asking them to endorse the separation of ...

Derren Brown hypnosis for color-blindness, personal growth, and instant religious conversion

Sunday, September 2nd, 2007

Last night Liz and I watched an episode of Darren Brown's Mind Control on the SciFi Channel. There were three remarkable segments in this show. In one of them he used his skill in detecting lies to navigate an obstacle course, and (if you believe him) was confident ...

Aliens Cause Global Warming

Tuesday, December 28th, 2004

John Stossel has an article about Michael Crichton's new novel, State of Fear, which is critical of whether human acitivities are causing global warming. Crichton also has a speech on the subject, Aliens Cause Global Warming, which he gave at Caltech. I have not read this one yet, ...

Joseph Smith saves!

Saturday, August 7th, 2004

Wednesday morning was quite frustrating for reasons not worth elaboration, but around noon, as I was walking on campus a Mormon Missionary accosted me and began to walk with me. Perhaps I was so exhausted from the morning I did not have the energy to argue with him or ...