"Christmas"

Best to lead of with a basic premise: our bodies are like very complex versions of those chemistry sets kids used to get as Christmas or birthday presents when I…

This is a reprise of my 7.27.2009 posting in honor of the U.S. Supreme Court’s “Hobby Lobby” decision where apparently what people believe–in this case an employer’s beliefs–trumps even a …

This is hardly the first time I have engaged the subject of homosexuality in these pages, and it probably won’t be the last. [See, from the DCJ Archives Nos. 2.4,…

There has been a lot of chatter the past few years about a “war on Christmas.” Most of us secular humanists have been blamed for it and have regarded this…

Remember this song from somewhere in the 1950s I think? I believe for every drop of rain that falls  A flower grows,  I believe that somewhere in the darkest night …

America has never gotten over its rather precipitous dumping of its agrarian and small town origins. They linger virally in our national marrow ready to be summoned by next drawling…

I first wrote about these places in my 1971 book,* when such developments were in their infancy on the American urban landscape. My first actual encounter with one was when…

You’re probably not going to believe this. (Actually, you probably don’t believe anything I write.) In a group discussion in which the subject of the American military DADT (Don’t Ask,…

There is a scene in the futuristic fiction film by George Lucas, THX1138, in which Robert Duval, as the title character, enters a sort of phone booth in which there…

I have made much in these pages of the claim that religious belief is based on nothing but a need to fill in the unknowns of life with something, a…