A strife of interests
Following President Obama’s ambitiously upbeat State of the Union address, I was reminded, all too soon, of this Ambrose Bierce quote.
Escape to Reality: The Journey of a Man Seeking Answers
By the creator of Humanist Atheists of America – fb page and WP blog (links below) Note: In a bit of serendipitous good luck, we’ve come across a relatively new voice – crying in the wilderness, as it were – and received permission to republish this article, in its entirely, for our readers at The…
Lest we forget – what great leaders do
In simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go – and gets up, and goes. – John Erskine
Claiming your own reality
I’ve been mentally away, for what seems like way too long, by health considerations. Temporarily knocked into a gutter of personal angst – by my glaring inability to single-handedly challenge and change, the many social ills of our day. And juxtaposed against an awareness that I probably need to type a little faster, if I…
A Concise History of Evolution and Religion
By Scott Kaelen Scott Kaelen – Flogging a World of Dead Horses Note: This is an extraordinary opportunity for us, here at The Salt Lake Daily Issue, to make available to our readers this remarkably detailed timeline – of some 80 seminal benchmarks to the initial rise of life, and its subsequent evolution – over…
Shurtleff’s biggest challenge
Utah’s animus dresses up in white, before 10th US Circuit Court
Love is deemed chaste, because of its certain natural innocence. So when Governor Gary Herbert declared it was his duty to defend Utah’s Amendment III, I was reminded of George Bernard Shaw’s observation. That, when a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares it to be his duty. But…
20 favorite quotes for our time
These are some of my favorites – ‘bronzed,’ as it were. (See over a hundred more here.)
Funny how much I can get done – when I have too much to do
Announcing the reemergence of our sister-site, ModernAtheist.org © It’s been an interesting couple of weeks around here. It started with our back-up computer (the one my wife uses) going completely bonkers. Requiring a complete, ‘clean,’ reinstall of the Windows 7 operating system (and close to 200 updates) — twice — before getting it back…
The Liability of Tea Party Lemmings, in America today.
I have rarely come across such an important and timely book as is The Authoritarians, by Bob Altemeyer. Available, along with his other books on Amazon, Associate Professor of Psychology, at the University of Manitoba, Bob Altemeyer has never the less offered The Authoritarians free of charge – in PDF book form – to…
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