Water Wars: A US Legacy of Poor Natural Resource Management
Last week, Mother Jones reported that 5,433 people living in the world’s seventh largest economy have no running water—nothing coming out of their kitchen or bathroom faucets. This headline, which may seem more appropriate in... Read More
This S*** is Bananas…or Not
Bananas, the fruit Ray Comfort once described as the “atheists’ nightmare” (because they’re made by God to fit perfectly into the human hand), seem to now be facing God’s wrath—or, more realistically, a fungal disease... Read More
Hearts in the Kuiper Belt: NASA Concludes Ten-Year Journey to Pluto
On January 19, 2006, the New Horizons probe set sail from Earth at the record-breaking launch speed of 36,000 miles per hour. Its destination was Pluto—that previously unseen dwarf planet, sitting three billion miles away,... Read More
Meanwhile, at Google…
While government continues to hash out the same, tired issues grounded in individual versus collective rights, equality and what that entitles, and how to implement policies of distributive justice sans agreement and seldom making progress... Read More
Uncertain Humanism and the Water of Whiteness
IN 2005, one of today’s most revered American writers, David Foster Wallace (now deceased), delivered a commencement address to graduates of Kenyon College, titled “This Is Water.” The twenty-minute speech is worth a listen or... Read More
Outlaw Humanism Embracing Uncertainty and the Flesh that Struggles to Be Seen
I'D LIKE TO THANK the American Humanist Association (Maggie Ardiente in particular) and Dr. Anthony B. Pinn for organizing the “Humanism and Race” panel at the 2015 AHA conference in Denver, Colorado, this past spring.... Read More
Confronting Racism: Don’ts & Dos for Humanists
THERE ARE DEBATED ISSUES within the humanist movement revolving around the agenda that should guide humanist thinking and activism. Is it enough to address separation of church and state? Of course, science education should be... Read More