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Last night, the state of Georgia executed a man who was very likely innocent . Like PZ, I don't care whether he was guilty or innocent. ...

Even when I was a kid, I knew I was lucky. I had a middle-class family in a prosperous country. Sally Fields used to come on the teevee soli...

Image Source Guardian.co.uk This man is a terrorist. Blond, blue-eyed, solidly middle-class, raised and educated in a Western democracy...

This news brought tears to my eyes, because I adore Terry Pratchett and I never ever want the world to be without him : Three and a half ye...

I'm sending you all away.  For one thing, I'm busy and woefully short of advance posts.  But most importantly, there's something...

Confession: this post is mostly an excuse to post my super-awesome front loader and dump truck photo: Check out the dirt-dumping action!...

Back before I distracted by the shiny new car and purchasing of same, our own George W. had a post up that really forced some thinking.  And...

When we went to Arizona last year, my intrepid companion and I crossed Hoover Dam.  It's not an experience I care to repeat any time soo...

Just got done watching a show called Ancestors of Ancient Rome , which reminded me of some of my favorite people in the ancient world. Bac...

Sometimes, just sometimes, corporations do things that make me proud : This summer, after months of conversations, some top executives from ...

EX PRAETERITO PRAESENS PRVDENTER AGIT NI FUTUR- ACTIONE DETVRPET History became a living thing in Roz Ashby's and Ken Meier's hands....

I work with a wonderful young woman from Serbia. She's one of the most competent people I've ever met: practical, insightful, and w...

The Westboro Baptist Church, apparently bored with picketing American servicemembers' funerals, decided to head north for a Canadian jau...

One of the things that stood out like a red coat on a soldier during the whole cracker debacle was the sheer quantity of snivelling. In a t...

I've been meaning to do several posts: one on the shooting at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, one on the disturbing ...

Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one's understanding without gu...

Progressive Conservative deserves a more coherent response than I'm capable of just now. I'll leave it up to you lot to go read his...