The U.S. Senate is about to pass a bill on the treatment of terrorism suspects that was passed by the House yesterday. Among some benign things, this bill also does the following, according to the Associated Press:

Prohibits “grave breaches” of the Geneva Conventions. Defines grave breaches as acts such as torture, rape, biological experiments [...]

This past Sunday we started a new tradition of splitting our collection with a relevant nonprofit organization.  We raised $135 for Doorways, which provides housing for people living with HIV and AIDS in St. Louis.  Thank you to everyone who donated.  Whether or not you were there Sunday, please check out Doorways’ web site and [...]

FYI, there are now podcasts available of my 9-11 anniversary reflections and my last platform on “Saying Yes.”  You can listen to them at a computer or download them to an iPod-type device.   As always, feel free to send our podcasts link to your friends if you like them, and to your enemies if you [...]

My partner and I are in the process of buying our first house.  We don’t close for several weeks, but already I have become at least twice as boring as before.  I think only about paint treatments and gutter guards and furniture arrangement.  The other day I was talking with someone and had trouble paying [...]

This is a little late for the Katrina anniversary, but I just found the letter I wrote to some of the people who donated to the Ethical Culture relief effort last summer. This multi-Society effort sent a truckload of school supplies and donations to an elementary school in Mobile, Alabama. The area near [...]

Several people asked to see the rest of my 9-11 poem that I quoted from during the platform this morning.  You can find a complete version at http://aeu.org/01911/lovelady1.html

Joining the new California circle that I mentioned in my August 21st post, here’s a nice article about an Ethical Society forming in Rockland County, NY.  Here’s a virtual toast to them.
For those of you reading this blog who don’t live near an Ethical Society–yet–check out the brand-new Ethical Society Without Walls, a virtual Ethical [...]