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By far my new favorite appeals court judges in effect apply a kind of reductio ad absurdum to cause the over-zealous prosecuting Attorney General to get hoisted by his own petard. http://freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070115/COL04/701150333 In a ruling sure to make philandering...

No joke. Do you realize that the lions share of your county taxes goes for public schools? Do you realize that people from limited income groups, like the elderly, have had their parents pay for their education, and now they are paying themselves, when they have been out of school for years...

This is from Bob Parks' "What's New" column: I know we've done this to death, but I also think that the general view has been to keep an open mind whenever further evidence (or should that be in quotation marks?) is presented. Is it time to close the book on homeopathy? BillyJoe.

I nominate an Elmore Leonard, even though I can't remember the title. It's a Stick novel (and might even be Stick) where he and Frank meet up in the car lot and have their fun: "Frank, why don't you shut the f*ck up." For the final twist: The Throwback, by Tom Sharpe; Faithless, by John L...

A good day for Reason and Critical Thought, the most famous creationist/evolutionary fight in history. 1925. It has been this long and still there are those who cling to superstition. I wonder if reason will ever be enough. In Contact Sagan had his protagonist queried "Do you think 98% of...

I was just wondering this morning if someone (a Christian) could explain why Noah's flood stories for children always leave out this important lesson. Is it because it seems to contradict the lessons that Noah's flood is supposed to teach? Is it because it seems to contradict this earlier...

It happens all too often with me. I will remember the plot, or the anguish of the drama, as some might put it, but I will forget the ending. That happens even with books that I read twice. For the life of me, I can't remember whodunnit, or the author's conclusion, if there was one. Just...