I was hoping to make it out to the Gay Pride Parade this year. Which – as it turns out – has apparently been shortened to the more politically correct Pride Parade, in recognizing the entire GBLT community out there, along with a number of others. Though not a member of any one of…
This Memorial Day not only turned my head at the overwhelming numbers of people you can sometimes pack into a grave yard, but turned my thoughts to once again weighing an apparent conundrum concerning the size of cemeteries. Over the years, I’ve had occasion to mention – to a number of family and friends…
I think I heard that Pat Robertson figured the monster tornado in Moore, Oklahoma, had something to do with a general lack of prayer – or lack of participation in Draw Muhammad Day. But since we don’t pray much around here, I figured, just to be on the safe side, we’d better get off…
President Obama noted last Thursday, that prayer tends to join people together – in their humanity, and their commonality. And, as noted in The Salt Lake Tribune, Utahans joined other Americans – all across the land – in a National Day of Prayer. As an atheist, I can appreciate how God got invented –…
Evolution – the lie that’s too big to be true – continues to be derided as little more than an unsubstantiated theory, by many of its detractors. The message gets communicated in any number of ways, but all are dismissive of evolution. “Life didn’t just assemble itself out of nothing.” “Even the scientists claim they…
