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Why Be Good?

( Atheism andReason )

If you have a 3-year-old like mine, you hear “why” questions quite a bit. “Why do I have to eat my dinner before I have some candy?” “Why shouldn’t I hit my brother?” “Why shouldn’t I tell a lie?” I have a thorough understanding of my moral code, so such questions don’t throw me. I [...]

Gotta Drink ‘Em All!

( Humor andReason andWonders )

I started drinking just a little over a month ago for the first time in my life. Only wine so far. But it’s laughable to say only wine. So many varieties, so many places, climates, vintages, it’s mind-boggling. Hell, France alone, with its baroque classifications and history, would be all too easy to get lost [...]

A Bit of Monkey Business

I noticed recently that the signature line of a poster on one of the several homeschool Yahoo groups to which I subscribe included the following: If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys and apes? I am baffled. Is the writer actually looking for an answer to her question? I’m [...]

Growing Without Faith

At the very end of my first post on this blog, Growing Without School, I promised to write about growing without faith. I’m finally ready to make good on that promise! I wrote then that I considered faith “the worst agent of intellectual poison, a cancer that most people willingly inflict upon their children’s developing [...]

Train Wreck, fast forward

Zimbabwe wasn’t always like this. You might think the fact that his every brutal action requires additional (and more brutal) action to deal with the unintended consequences might give Robert Mugabe pause. Just as it should give Hugo Chavez pause. But I think the only thing on Mugabe’s mind is how long can he hold [...]