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“Billy Boy The Sunday Soldier of the 17th Maine” by Jean Mary Flahive* is a novel based on a real story, one I grew up with. Billy was W...

Dissing An Idol and Feeling Better For It by Anthony McCarthy T he furor over the essay posted below produced some good points to consider a...

EVOLUTION, evolution, ideology and the continuation of LIFE. For my sister-in-law, Dr. M.L.D., the ecologist who has talked through some of...

from More Just So Stories G ina Kolata of the New York Times New Service began a recent piece in the usual way, with an explanation steeped...

Irresponsible Corporate Media Makes Responsible Government Impossible Note: I was going to write a followup to this piece in light of this...

Science Without Physical Evidence, Dawkins Brings Us Back To The Middle Ages. "Did Jesus have a human father, or was his mother a virg...

This Comment Posted By olvlzl Was Not Submitted For Approval. F inally got to a computer with a fast enough connection to watch digby’s addr...

Who’d of Thunk It? A paper reports the news and the people read it. S pending so much of my time bemoaning the media it was good to read a B...

Cutback In Writing Activity A sudden change in my situation will apparently force me to cut back on my writing both here and at Echidne of ...

What Is This Thing Called Blog? M y partner in blogging has done two quite fine posts off of Joe Klein’s whine about those mean bloggers. ...

Addendum I ’d used part of this article in one of the pieces critical of the behavioral sciences but should have read it through to the end...

Doing The Least I Can Do Because I Didn't Do What I Should Have Done I 'd planned to write about a piece posted at DAS Blog last mon...

A Classic Example of Why Counter-Bigotry Is A Bad Tactic P eter Hitchens ruined what could have been a somewhat useful exploration of his b...

First Posted Sunday, July 09, 2006; With Further Comment on May 28, 2007 Believers and Non-believers on the Left Must Unite For the Common ...