…..,,,,,,, 75% of Americans think climate change is a problem that needs fixing. And most of them claim they’re “willing to do absolutely anything necessary to stop this impending disaster”. Their actions, however, tell a very different story. Are they embracing electric cars? Hardly. Fewer than 3% of all cars, SUVs, pickup trucks and light-duty …
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12% of 16- to 24-year-olds think honey is produced by farmers squeezing bees. A fifth think fish fingers are made from the fingers of fish. 15% don’t know that lamb comes from sheep. 9% think potatoes grow on trees. ( Rowse/Daily Mirror) Could this possibly be true? I would like to think these young people are having the survey-takers on, teasing them. No …
Epicureanism was never meant to be a dry academic philosophy. In fact, it is best kept away from academia, where, as usual with philosophy, long words render it dull, if not incomprehensible. Rather, it is a vital way of living which seeks to free men and women from a life of unhappiness, fear and anxiety. It is a …
A Saudi Arabian court has sentenced to death Palestinian poet and artist Ashraf Fayadh for apostasy (apostasy?) and other blasphemy-related offenses, including promoting atheism, in his 2008 poetry collection, Instructions Within. The 35-year-old was released on bail only to be arrested again on January 1, 2014, when he was sentenced to four years in prison and …
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Bernie Sanders to a meeting at the evangelical Liberty University, founded by Jerry Falwell: “Are you content? Do you think it’s moral that twenty percent of the children in this country, the wealthiest country in the history of the world, are living in poverty? Do you think it is acceptable that 40 percent of African-American children …
