The One With Aldacron

Nearly four short years ago, on October 24th, 2006, I wrote the following in a post titled, My Religious Evolution and the Atheist Revolution. I have always entertained the possiblity that one or more supreme beings exist, much as I have believed that the existence of extra-terrestrials is possible. But my tolerance of religion has [...]

Some 100 years from now, historians are quite possibly going to be debating the trigger that launched the fall of the United States of America. Some may point to the Vietnam era. Others to the early signs of the evolving conservative movement in the 80s, or perhaps to their rise in the 90s under Newt [...]

Given that I’ve been living outside of my native USA for going on 20 years, and that it was only in the last decade that I arrived at the realization that I’m politically progressive and religiously atheistic, I’ve never had to face a common dilemma that many American atheists and liberals struggle with. How do [...]

UPDATE: I should make it clear before you read the content below that since writing this post, my position on the ‘mosque’ has changed. Dennis N. pointed out in the comments that it’s not actually a mosque and it’s two blocks away from Ground Zero. I’ve read up a good deal more and see that [...]

There are a lot of old TV movies and miniseries that I’d love to see because I was too young when they originally aired, or because I really enjoyed them back then. Most, if not all, I could find with a simple search on Amazon. But, unfortunately, I really need a version with Korean subtitles [...]

Councillor Colin Hall, the new Lord Mayor of Leicester, is turning tradition on its head and taking on the Anglican Church in the process. He appointed a secularist as Chaplain and refused to attend a traditional cathedral service that welcomes new Lord Mayors. It gets better. Hall has also announced the banning of prayers before [...]

Now this is an initiative I could get behind, provided I were a Chinese student studying in Japan. Japanese AV star with a doctorate, Anri Suzuki, 24, is having sex with Chinese students for free in Japan to apologize for her country’s invasion of China. I like how they call her an “AV star with [...]

We all know that political candidates’ positions on critical issues usually depend on whose votes they are trying to win. We want to believe that they are for or against something because of personal conviction, because it’s right or wrong. Sometimes that sort of candidate actually comes along. But we have been disappointed time and [...]

Remember all the vehement denials from the Bush administration when allegations first surfaced that they had tortured terrorism suspects? We’ve gone from that, to this. “Yeah, we water-boarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed,” Bush said of the terrorist who master-minded the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington. He said that event shaped his presidency [...]

Israel’s leaders have been heading toward the deep end for some time. Now, they’ve irrevocably gone off it. It appears unlikely the conflict will fade soon. With at least one new ship already setting sail to challenge the sea blockade, another flotilla being planned in London, the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva voting [...]