By JESSE McKINLEY and KIRK JOHNSON
Published: November 14, 2008
SACRAMENTO — Less than two weeks before Election Day, the chief strategist behind a ballot measure outlawing same-sex marriage in California called an emergency meeting here.
“We’re going to lose this campaign if we don’t get more money,” the strategist, Frank Schubert, recalled telling leaders of Protect [...]

Polar opposites.  Fear and Faith.  These concepts do not live together, they are never under the same roof.  When the Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Mormons and the Catholics and the Baptists come knocking at my door I am not afraid.  But they are.  Fear is always obvious in their message.
The tactics employed by the religulous [...]

Help me out here. In literature we distinguish fantasy from Science Fiction. The distinguishing variable - is it plausible. Do the premises set forth in the story violate basic principles of physics? Like a two ton dragon flying with a ten foot wing span - probably fantasy. A space ship flying across the galaxies in [...]

Holy Cow! Our system of education must surely be failing. I suppose that mentally ill people with sound knowledge could make irrational judgments. But all Conspiracy Theorists are not mentally ill. So what is this phenomenon of conspiracy that seams to permeate our modern society?
Crazy Sprinkler Lady:

Irony abounds in the following video on religious conspiracy. [...]

There is evidence throughout history that desperate people will follow just about anybody.  Generally the numbers do not reflect the majority.  Generally the numbers are quite small in proportion to the whole.  That was the case with the Mormon cult, it was the case with the Jim Jones cult, and it is the truth with [...]

Son,
Humor is the essence of sanity. Check out these videos. Humor has been my salvation, relieving me of the insane conflict of being a human - aware of myself and others - and aware of faith as both inspiration and superstition. Christian jokes abound - fueling awareness of human conflict. But what is humor - [...]