If you’ve calculated your ecological footprint (a good thing to do every Earthday), you know that air travel uses a lot of energy and creates a lot of pollution. A company called Terrapass (which I just learned about through the web site livingwithed, which I learned about through noimpactman–it’s an eco-surfing day) will calculate [...]

I’ve just finished The Deserter’s Tale by Joshua Key (“as told to” Lawrence Hill). It’s a memoir of a U.S. soldier from Oklahoma who was sent to Iraq in 2003 and became so disgusted with the war and the conduct of his own countrymen (and himself) that he deserted and fled with his family [...]

Yesterday, the Missouri state legislature started debating an omnibus bill (SCS SB 370, 375, 432) that would further weaken sex education and family planning clinics in Missouri. All the available evidence, and two seconds of clear thought, shows that weakening sex education and access to birth control means more unwanted pregnancies.
Today, the U.S. [...]

The killings at Virginia Tech are horrifying and saddening. And immediately the questions: How could someone do this? Why do such things happen? Today at least as many innocent people will be killed in Iraq, in Darfur, yet those places are far away (if you are reading this in America), and those conflicts [...]

Just wanted to share a couple interesting blog entries I ran across:
http://www.queercents.com/2006/04/17/god-and-mammon/ : Primarily about religion and charity, but what particularly struck me is a couple planning children going church-shopping because they believe that raising children in an agnostic household would be too scary for the children. I’d like to hear what any agnostic [...]

Here are some links related to my April Fools’ Day platform (which you can listen to at http://ethicalstl.org/libraryaudio.html):
Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Yes, the Ethical Society accepts dual affiliation.
The Daily Show
The Colbert Report
Julia Sweeney’s “Letting Go of God”
The Onion’s post-9/11 article “God Angrily Clarifies ‘Don’t Kill’ Rule”
Any other links to share, fun-loving readers?

When I was studying psychology I read about the famous Stanford Prison Experiment, in which a number of psychologically healthy students were divided into two groups to play prison in the basement of a Stanford building. Within days, the “guards” were abusing the “prisoners” so badly that the experiment was called off. The [...]