Libertine

I’ve not so far written about the Tiger Woods story because I viewed it as yet another story about a straying celebrity and that it would quickly become yesterday’s news.  Reports such as these are now rather commonplace and are hardly worth reporting on, let alone commenting on. But this story outlived its fifteen minutes [...]

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I’ve often considered what attracts different people to religion and what purposes religion has served in society.  Recently, I’ve been thinking of the converse: what makes people reject religion and the different reasons why people are either atheists or agnostics. I think there are several reasons, often depending on each particular person’s personality and outlook [...]

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The following is a transcript of a WWII veteran speaking out for marriage equality in Maine.  I think this man’s words speak eloquently enough for themselves, so I’ll not add any comments of my own, except to ask for your thoughts after reading this: Good morning, committee. My name is Phillip Spooner and I live [...]

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Last night I was listening to the radio and came upon yet another right wing talk show.  I didn’t recognize the woman’s voice; all I knew was that it wasn’t Ann Coulter, as I’ve heard her voice, ad nauseum, on several different shows, on both radio and TV. This unknown woman had the unpleasant quality [...]

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This morning while idly surfing the net, I read one woman’s rant about the latest sexual brouhaha du jour; that of David Letterman being blackmailed over the many sexual dalliances he’s had over the years with women he’d worked with. In complete indignation, she ripped Letterman up one side and down the other. She reviled [...]

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While talking with a coworker recently, he stated that he was against health care reform because Nazi Germany had a nationalized, or “socialized”, health care system. Oh, where to begin with this blockheaded black and white thinking? First of all, Hitler made the trains run on time in Nazi Germany and it was his idea [...]

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The other night I was changing stations while listening to the radio in the car.  I happened upon a station where they were talking about a survey of Americans who had been married at least once and it said that out of that groups, 76% had been married only once, 20% had been married twice, [...]

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I normally don’t repost articles written by other people in their entirety, but the following article so precisely sums up my sentiments that I am making an exception.   All bolded passages are my emphasis. The Real US Healthcare Issue: Compassion Deficiency By Gordon Marino Northfield, Minn. – During the height of the banking and Wall [...]

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A couple of weeks ago, I was listening to a right wing talk show — I can’t remember if it was Boortz or someone else — where the host was sneering at modern Americans, saying the average 21st century American would never survive if we were sent back in time to the 18th century during [...]

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While idly browsing the net today, I came upon a most interesting post that expressed similar ideas to my own about the recent flurry of public moral hypocrisy we’ve seen lately on the news.  What caught my interest about this post was that it came from the other side of the aisle from my own [...]

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