As an atheist, there's no real reason for me to celebrate Christmas. I no longer believe in God in the same way that I no longer believe in Santa Claus. In fact, I feel no more need to celebrate the birth of Christ than I feel need to celebrate the birth of Socrates or Confucius (wiser than Jesus?) Ralph Nader^1 or Alexander Fleming^2 ( ( Read more... )

Article VI of the United States Constitution reads ( Read more... )

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This is an appeal not to the leaders of the world, but to the people. Governments and courts are moved not by the law, but by a demand for justice. Progress is made only by the people asserting their will. It is achieved only through dissent, protest, civil disobedience (1), and organization. From the abolition of slavery to unions to the civil ( Read more... )

The following quote comes from page 51 of a report entitled "Rebuilding America's Defenses" which was issued by the think tank The Project for the New American Century in September 2000 ( Read more... )

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"The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory."

-Howard Zinn, A Power Governments Cannot Suppress, pg. 270

I'd like to formally anounce my candidacy for the President of the United States of America in 2016 ( Read more... )

W. is the missing link.

i've been trying to restructure my life so as to be more consistent with my convictions about what constitutes, in the socratic tradition, the good life. this is not an easy thing to do. it is easy to think things and to have grandiose visions about what life ought to be like, both at home and on a global scale, but it is another thing entirely ( Read more... )