A guilty pleasure, for sure… but Brian Murphy goes off the chain in a ripping (and at time over the top) dismissal of five prominent atheists. His treatment of Sam Harris sets the overall tone… For a guy who purportedly came to be an atheist through his intellect, Harris routinely [...]

[To see more on this issue: Crashing the Tea Party - NYTimes.com.] A lively discussion about the old Christian Right’s ties to the Tea Party has been going on among my friends on left and right sides of the political spectrum. I’ve asserted the ties are real and in fact [...]

I’m starting to think that the Left might actually be right. The above doesn’t pretend to have all the answers. But in light of recent events regarding Rupert Murdoch’s media empire and its manipulation of entire nations, the idea that so-called “Free Market” capitalism isn’t quite what it is advertised [...]

Best (and most convicting) four word challenge for all of us re politics: “Have contempt for contempt” (St. Francis de Sales). So, whether discussing Michele Bachmann or Joe Biden,

And that’s tragic…* pt 1: Racism 101: Why defenses don’t work by Jason Dye (included in Wilson Station with his kind permission) “We have a high percentage of blacks in prison, and that’s tragic, but are they in prison just because they are black or because they don’t want to [...]

Virginity checks, according to CNN and Amnesty International, were conducted against women taking part in March 9 pro-democracy protests in Egypt. Notes Amnesty: When army officers violently cleared Tahrir Square on 9 March – the day after International Women’s Day – 18 women were detained, beaten, given electric shocks, of [...]

And in the totally unbelievably bizarre department, Psychology Today’s website posted (and then — upon being blasted roundly by the masses for it — unposted) the following bit of racist insanity. Warning: what follows is highly offensive racism masquerading as science. We post it to remind ourselves — and our [...]

I happened to catch the following remarks on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” and am writing them down now (TiVo!). Robert Kennedy, Jr., talked about his Aunt Eunice Shriver and how her Catholic faith affected her treatment of her sister. Rose was born mentally challenged. Eunice often took Rose with her [...]

Admission here. I have never liked Joel and Victoria Osteen’s version of Christianity. For one thing, he smiles way too much. (And no, I’m not kidding.) For another thing, his low-key but ever-present focus on “prosperity gospel” messages leaves me wondering how he would play in Darfur or various other [...]

Many years ago as a young pup writer, I was music reviewer for Cornerstone magazine. And I reviewed many, many albums which I might or might not have liked that well. There were only a few, maybe as many as four or five, which I still today believe stand the [...]