Tom Wise has another opinion article out on Racism and the criminal justice system. Read it on Alternet.org ———- Shopping online with a credit card should be getting safer. Inter@ctive Week has an article on Mastercard, Visa, and American Express approaches to making this stuff safe. Inter@ctive Week article
Note to self: Do not ask people to reply to more than one question per email.
Bet you thought that the Taliban would stop at desecrating the Buddist statues. Think again! Read the UN Wire article.
A Dennis Leary quote: Racism isn’t born, folks. It’s taught. I have a 2 – year old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list. — Denis Leary If you believe everything you read, you better not read. — Japanese proverb We rarely think that people have good sense unless they agree with…
I especially like the last paragraph. Are we really certain that the mechanism of society, like the mechanism of the heavenly bodies or the mechanism of the human body, is subject to general laws? Are we really certain that it is a harmoniously organized whole? Or is it not true that what is most notable…
“…there is an art to flying…or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything
You live and learn. At any rate, you live. I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. — Douglas Adams
Americans are so caught up in the idea of materialism through capitalism that they think that a pure capitalist system benefits everyone. The premise of capitalism is that everyone will do what advantages them or they die. Maybe not dead in a coffin and grave, but they would be homeless and incapable of competing in…
Have a new site to love:Â The Skeptic’s Dictionary!