I’m still waiting to hear your thoughts on gambling, folks–or maybe you’re as ambivalent as I am. In the meantime, here is a site where you can test how strong your unconscious preference is for one racial group over another (the test I took was just blacks and whites, actually). It’s not something most [...]

One of the things we’ll be voting on here in St. Louis is a proposal to remove the current loss limit in our casinos, in exchange for the casinos giving some of the resulting revenue profits to the St. Louis school system.
Our school system could of course use the money, but I’ve never been a [...]

As the perfect follow-up to my platform this past Sunday on torture and illegal detention, this morning on the Diane Rehm show there was an update on the Uighurs (an ethic group in China) at Guantanamo. This group of men have been in U.S. custody for seven years. Our government fully admits that [...]

Well, duh.
Connecticut strikes down civil unions and requires equal marriage rights for same-sex couples.
To those who worry that this may affect the election by riling fundamentalist voters, remember Martin Luther King’s letter from Birmingham jail–majorities always ask minorities to wait just a little longer for their rights, then just a little more. But the [...]

My recent talk on Billy and my visit to Dancing Rabbit Eco-villiage is up on the podcasts page. There’s always more that I want to say than I have time for on Sunday, so below in no particular order are some ideas that I had to cut, FYI. Also, feel free to use [...]

The New York Society for Ethical Culture (which I fondly call the Mother Ship, as it was the very first Ethical Society) has chosen for its new Leader . . . three Leaders. Recognizing that no one Leader can be everything to everyone (sorry about that), NYSEC will be served by three in various [...]

One of our members asked me to let you know that she’s got some very cool handmade quilts, an extensive tarot deck collection, and some other items for sale here and here. Help out a fellow member with her virtual yard sale and check them out.
We had an interesting discussion about tarot, which I [...]