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Posted by on Dec 23, 2025 in Blog | 0 comments

An Atheist’s Guide to Christmas

 

 

AN ATHEIST’S GUIDE TO CHRISTMAS

We are not Christians. To us, The Bible is historical fiction. Great book, way ahead of its time. But pure fantasy. It was the Alice in Wonderland of its day, only more violent and much scarier.

We do not believe in the so-called “miracle” of a virgin birth, which supposedly occurred 2,025 years ago around this time in Bethlehem — a town someplace in the Middle East (not Pennsylvania). We do not bow our heads in prayer, because no one up there or down there or out there is listening. Sure, we should always be respectful and acknowledge others to believe as they wish. But don’t expect us to “pretend.” Nope. We certainly don’t adhere to ancient belief systems lacking any tangible evidence forged during the Bronze Age by ancestors prone to mass hysteria and superstition. In short, we believe the “traditional” religious-version of Christmas is entirely bogus.

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Posted by on Nov 15, 2025 in Blog | 0 comments

My Thoughts About Road Rage

 

 

A terrible tragedy happened in Las Vegas yesterday. It was senseless. Stupid. Totally unnecessary.

The result: A dead 11-year-old boy and a murder charge.

The reason: Road rage.

Two drivers got into a dispute. The reasoning, or lack thereof, doesn’t matter. Two cars were driving on a city highway early in the morning. Then, with no warning, something happened between them triggering a back-and-forth clash that ended abruptly when one of the drivers produced a handgun. He fired a shot at the other driver. The bullet blasted through the car window and hit a child who was sitting in the back seat being taken on his way to school. The shooter was later identified and arrested. The boy was pronounced dead.

[READ THE StORY HERE]

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Posted by on Oct 27, 2025 in Blog | 0 comments

Meeting “Lassie’s Mom”

 

 

MEETING “LASSIE’S MOM”

Even though she died a few days ago, only now did I just learn of the death of June Lockhart. If you grew up watching 50s and 60s television, you remember her as *everyone’s* mom. Her beloved television shows included Lassie, Lost in Space, Petticoat Junction, plus many character roles in popular movies, usually typecast as the ideal mom. She embodied the perfect image of the ideal mother–and the portrayal was authentic. She was the real deal, and as nice as she could possibly be.

I got to meet Mrs. Lockhart once. The story is worth sharing.

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Posted by on Aug 6, 2025 in Blog | 4 comments

My Public Announcement (Long Post)

 

MY PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT (LONG POST)

Forgive the self-indulgence which follows. I need to address a few things and announce a few changes.

I’ve taken a break recently from my usual public activism. Admittedly, right now is the wrong time to NOT engage in advocacy and current affairs. Call this pause a serious abdication of citizen responsibility. Common decency demands more of us–all of us. Decent people must speak out. The dangers we face are real. The consequences of silence and indifference are self-evident, and likely about to worsen.

During my sabbatical, I resisted the daily urge to post on Facebook. Moreover, I ceased meaningful social media exchanges. I also suspended my own personal writings at my website and sidelined my contributions to online content sites that regularly publish my work which gives much wider attention to my ideas . I also limited my own social engagements–aside from usual home life. This inactivity wasn’t born out of any resentment or to make a protest. It wasn’t even planned. It just happened.

What created this diaspora of detachment?

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Posted by on Mar 30, 2025 in Blog | 0 comments

The Other Side of Perspective

 

 

THE OTHER SIDE

I think it’s important to look back on all of our lives and think of the wonderful people who changed us, and taught us, and gave us extraordinary perspectives, almost entirely for the better. This is purely a guess, but I suspect many of us will admit the most surprising benefits and broader horizons were often, not from those shallow spaces we grew up with or would have expected, but from people and places far away that we did not expect.

In 1994, I walked into the Turkish Embassy in Washington DC  thinking I had no shot at a job opening for a writer-editor position working for a country I really didn’t know that much about.

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