Someone on Facebook wrote to ask why I didn’t believe in God.  I replied belief is the wrong standard to apply to determine truth. If God exists, that existence should be provable. This blog isn’t an atheist’s rant, by the way.  I use the man’s question as an example to

  Rudyard Kipling’s poem “If” lists the attributes of a rational human being. Paramount is to keep your head when all about you are losing theirs…  That’s a tall order these days.  Robert Reich, famed economist and liberal commentator, lost his head recently. Furious

  Dr. Anthony Fauci is concerned about the anti-science bias in this country and so am I. Inconceivable to me is news about doctors and nurses being assaulted for providing medical care. Practitioners who advise us to wear masks during a pandemic shouldn’t be blamed for the mes

After Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45h President of the United States, officials in his government began to replace information they didn’t like with false information that supported their political viewpoint. They called these changes “alternative facts.” Many of us laughed

Last week, 3 Kenyans on my Facebook list unfriended me. I’d mentioned I was an atheist which caused one woman to call me a fool before disconnecting. I wasn’t surprised by her reaction. For centuries, non-believers have suffered contempt or even death at the hands of those with fa

Dr. Anthony Fauci admitted he was stunned to see people of the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) applaud when they learned Tennessee had halted all vaccinations for minors, including those for Covid-19.  The state said it wanted to protect parents’ rights to make medic

The pages of fashion magazines are bursting with predictions about new trends for the upcoming season.  One reason for optimism is that Covid-19 may be losing its grip on the country.  The battle isn’t won but incidents of the virus seem to be slowing down. If sustained, that mean

This morning, I opened my email to find a note from a long-time friend.  It said she and her husband of 50 years, both vaccinated against Covid-19,  were headed for a weekend resort to join former college chums.  Her words seemed to leap from the page as she expressed her anticipat

Joe Biden, 46th President of the United States is a  mild-mannered man who shares Mr. Rogers’ temperament more than most in politics. But he’s not withheld criticism of those who refuse to wear masks in public places during the pandemic. He accused these offenders of  Neandertha

A recent article in Business Insider pit the brains of humans against whales and the whales won.   That was two hundred years ago when Sperm whales learned to avoid the fishermen’s harpoons by swimming against the wind that powered the schooners.  History records that out of  80