Tag Archives: World News

The Polar Bear Threat to Organized Religion

December 13, 2007 – 5:39 pm

It’s about power, not about God. Photo by MJ Mac. (License: Creative Commons Attribution)Last night, I went with my family to see The Golden Compass. Even if you are not a fan of the fantasy genre, you have probably heard about this film by now due to the efforts of some Christian […]

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Reclaiming Ownership

March 9, 2007 – 11:07 pm

No Enemy
It is one of the greatest risks of living in a capitalistic society: where money is the presumed basis for happiness, each person grows up implanted with a susceptibility to marketing.
Humans have been trying to sell each other on their ideas since the beginning of time, and we have made an art form […]

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A Question of Privacy

January 17, 2007 – 10:26 pm

Privacy is a much-touted concept, an intangible property we all feel we have a right to own. But is it really that important? How much privacy can we really expect, in a world where more and more of our lives take place online? How much do we really care?
Right now, I know that an ex-boyfriend […]

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The Genie In The Bottle

December 28, 2006 – 10:23 pm

Once upon a time…
This is how the stories begin, and from the first four words we know the ending we expect. No matter how old we grow, we continue to be affected by the tales of our childhood. These stories fill us with dreams and expectations which, even as we take our knocks and […]

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Let’s Talk About Torture

December 21, 2006 – 10:21 pm

I have been proud to host many civil discussions on my column. We have talked about abortion, pornography, and various Bush controversies without ripping each other’s eyes out. It has been lovely.
But this is not going to be one of those articles.
Yesterday, the breaking news was that an American had actually been held and […]

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Being An Atheist Doesn’t Mean You Are Immoral

September 14, 2006 – 9:12 pm

A comment on a recent Newsvine thread stated:
A Columbine shooter’s diary, released along with loads of other documents by the Denver Post, shows that he was an atheist who believed all the evolutionary teaching he’d been fed in school. He wondered why he should suppress his natural instincts and be nice. Surely natural instincts […]

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Hatred As A Demographic

August 1, 2006 – 9:00 pm

A recent article I seeded about the Israel-Hezbollah conflict drew quite a remarkable chorus of voices, many of them outraged that I would dare to seed an article which was sympathetic to the Hezbollah viewpoint. In preparing to seed the link, it had certainly occurred to me that there would be debate, and yet […]

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Let’s Talk About Pornography

July 24, 2006 – 8:58 pm

photo by Maja Prodan
Pornography is the quail inside the duck inside the turkey at Christmas dinner. The hidden secret lurking inside all our hard drives, waiting for its moment of private delight to shine out. We see it everywhere, but continue to strive to deny its influence. We don’t like to talk about it; not […]

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