Intellectual honesty – and freedom of conscience

  In a return to the basics – Basic Intimidation and Coercion – the LDS Church has dropped the hammer on a couple of known troublemakers recently.  Dissidents – bent on the task of enlightening their fellow believers – and possible bring about what they had hoped could be, positive changes. Of course, once ecclesiastical…

Insults tit for tat with Pope Francis

  Since the murderous attack on those satirical cartoonists and their staff, at Charlie Hebdo’s headquarters in Paris, there have been any number of cries for more journalistic self-censorship. And by critics – often folded in with their condolences for the victims of this crime – concerned with what are viewed by many, as needlessly…

A Call to Alarms

  As human beings, we are rather wondrous creatures – made ridiculously contemptible by an overarching and collective need to play on, control, manipulate, and regulate, the private lives and social spheres of influence, of those around us. This collective defect in character is nowhere more pronounced, and used to gaining sway, than in those…