This week’s poem is by Steven Zimmerman. He was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, in 1942, graduated from college in 1963, and served in Vietnam with the U. S. Army. He is the father of... Read More

This week’s puzzle, titled “The Modern World,” is a double jumble! Unscramble the words and place into the blanks with numbers beneath. Transfer the letters to the grid based on the numbered boxes to reveal... Read More

It’s a new year, and that means new comics from your favorites: Jesus and Mo, Ape Not Monkey, and The Bad Chemicals!      

Tom Standage’s self-imposed mandate is to assuage our technoterror. In books like his laudable study of the telegraph, The Victorian Internet (1998), and An Edible History of Humanity (2009), the author demonstrated, mostly successfully, that... Read More

Ronald Dworkin’s last book, Religion Without God, is simultaneously a blast from the past and a sign of the times. He claims to be religious and atheist in a manner that has some parallels in... Read More

Yes, it’s that time of year, when humanists and atheists are to blame for starting the fictional “War on Christmas”! While the American Humanist Association usually receives some “hate mail” around the holiday season by... Read More