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In his book Nothing's Sacred: The Truth About Judaism , media scholar Douglas Rushkoff discusses his concept of "open-source religi...

So, today is my 64th birthday, so Happy Birthday To Me, and all that sorta stuff.  I have to say it's hard for me to believe that I'...

A man I know is one of the most cynical people I've ever met. He said to me on more than one occasion, "I hate people."  Despi...

In Jean-Paul Sartre's short story "The Wall," three men are captured during the Spanish Civil War, and all three are sentenced...

Over the last couple of months I've been dealing with a health problem that is one of those collections of symptoms that falls somewhere...

A writer friend of mine on social media asked what I thought was a very interesting question, and one that would be a good topic for this we...

Okay, I know I'm no genius, but I think I can place myself with confidence in the "above average intelligence" category. A f...

Being a blogger means I get some interesting emails. A lot of them, as you undoubtedly know if you read Skeptophilia  frequently, are reco...

I'm of two minds when laypeople write about science. On the one hand, I applaud anyone who is willing to delve into the often deep wat...

As you might imagine, I get hate mail pretty frequently. Most of it has to do with my targeting somebody's sacred cow, be it homeopath...