One of the things that sends me straight up a wall to paw helplessly and violently at ceilings comprised of crushed glass, old nails, and asbestos fibers is when I hear a young woman blithely claim that she isn’t a Feminist and, in fact, “wouldn’t want to be one.†They…
National Geographic's Genographic Project offers all of us an extraordinary opportunity: a method of tracing each of our family trees back to our African roots. Yes, each of us is African. An ever-growing collection of DNA studies unambiguously demonstrate that each of us had ancestors who lived in Africa more…
According to this article in Alternet, a British polling firm has concluded that "1.2 million Iraqis have met violent deaths since the 2003 invasion."Â More disturbing, Americans have no idea that their invasion has caused such misery and, for the most part, the American media doesn't care about reporting these…
Most rational people wouldn’t consider running for a prominent political office for fear of what would happen to their reputations. Their worries are well-founded. That is why so many people would never run for office, which serves to filter out the best and brightest potential candidates. This filtering process endangers our…
“Thou shalt not kill” (often translated as “You shall not murder”) has outlived its usefulness. It’s time to repeal this Commandment. Better yet, we should rewrite it to reflect society’s true moral policy regarding human conduct that causes death. Rewrite it as: “You may act in such a way that…