Democrats: Dumb and Dumber, Yet Again
It's looking bad for national health care. It's looking like it could lose. Again. Why? Because Democrats aren't smart like Republicans. ...
Religious Right Is Wrong on Amanda Simpson: She Deserves U.S. Job
Members of the Religious Right are protesting the appointment of Amanda Simpson as senior technical adviser to the U.S. Commerce Department. They're protesting because the new appointee was born Mitchell Simpson. ...
America the Polite?
I completely agree with Melinda about the shameful incivility that's on the Internet. People who make spiteful and ignorant comments about a person who has just died are the lowest of the low. I also bet Peggy Noonan is on target with her suspicion that Americans are despondent over having lost control of the country to vulgarians and crooks. I'm plenty despondent over both those developments. ...
Resolve to Be the Warmth of the World
I grew up Southern Baptist, which means my childhood was spent believing in the Big Man with a plan. He had it all in control. Having believed heart and soul in the kind of God that science has been steadily destroying for more than 200 years makes me a kind of throwback in the academic, scientific world where I now live. I still grieve a loss of innocent faith that more modern people hardly feel at all. ...
Is Abortion a God-Given Right?
I was shocked when I heard the Rev. Carlton Veazey call a women's right to abortion God-given. And I was confused. Whatever could make the Rev. Veazey think God would favor selfish, fornicating women over pure innocent babies? If he's right, we can throw out the House and Senate compromises over abortion and get right on with providing health care for people who need it. Everybody wants to be on God's side. Right?I must admit that it's hard to see evidence for the reverend's claim. When God kicked Eve and Adam out of the Garden of Eden, he flung a whole fistful of curses at women. They would ...
The Susan Sarandon-Tim Robbins Split: Why Women Leave?
When I first heard about the biggest liberal split since Alec Baldwin and Kim Bassinger, I assumed that Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins were calling it quits because he'd left her for a younger woman. She's 63 and he's 51, so that makes sense, right? No, actually. But my reaction had nothing to do with age. ...
A White Woman's Thoughts on Black Princesses
I remember reading once that African-American girls have higher self-esteem than white girls their age. This was some time ago and might not be true. But I wondered if it was because they DON'T have those helpless princesses to measure themselves against. I was so depressed years ago when I saw that first television special with a black Cinderella. I thought, "Oh great. Now put THAT on the black girls too."It seems to me that black women get to be so much more alive than white women. I know I'm being stereotypical. I could name a half dozen black women who are every bit as timid and eager to ...
Old Time Religion Ain't What It Used to Be
When Americans tell pollsters they're Christians, God only knows what they mean, according to two recent surveys of religious belief.When researchers from the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life looked at belief in eight Eastern or New Age ideas, they found self-described Christians were only a few percentage points behind the rest of the population.• Belief in astrology was 23 percent among Christians and 25 percent among the rest of the population.• Belief in reincarnation was 22 percent among Christians and 24 percent among the rest of the population.• ...
Help the Children -- It Won't Cost a Thing
Couldn't we buck that little, loud-mouthed group of religious fear-mongers just once and give children a break? The U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) will come up for a vote in 2010 or 2011, and the religious right is already getting the bullhorns out. This treaty has been ratified by every nation except the United States and Somalia. We have the late Jesse Helms and the Bush administration to thank for that little piece of shame. ...
Sad But True: Men Leave Their Sick Wives
Melinda, I am delighted that you've taken issue with the study about men abandoning their seriously ill wives six times more often than wives abandoning their seriously ill husbands. The difference between your position and mine provides some juicy topics to hash out. Perhaps we'll disagree more. ...
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