The brotherhood that volunteers experience can tie their community together more closely, and as you’d expect it will help their local needy. You’ll find it’s less hassle to get involved when a professional has planned the event. It hardly needs pointing out, when volunteering becomes a team effort with friends from work, it will be far more fun.

George Bush is ready to spend $7.5 billion dollars to protect the US from a disease that currently poses no danger and has so far killed no Americans, and only 62 people worldwide. Meanwhile, Bill Gates, much maligned by the media and internet geeks, is spending over $258 million in research toward Malaria, a disease […]

The first Hispanic Los Angeles mayor in a hundred years, Antonio Villaraigosa, says he’s a peacemaker. Tragically, he has been given his first test.
On July 10, 2005, a 19-month-old Hispanic child, Suzie Marie Pena, was shot to death as her father, Jose Raul Pena, held her in his arms. The police said the father was […]

The original vulgarity was bylined: …The Constipation of America’s Mid-East Peace Policy!
It is with some trepidation that I embark upon this discourse; for one, out of respect for elephants, but more so because within the American framework of democracy I have so greatly benefited. Thus, to liken the extension of America’s efforts to democratize […]

China maybe stopping some of the SPAM coming into the United States by getting tough on Internet users. Currently about 30 percent of all SPAM comes from China. But before you get all happy and break out the champagne you must realize that what they are doing has nothing to do with helping us. The […]

Quit paying the DEA to chase marijuana. We could save millions for education (or tax credits, for you republicans). We spend millions locking up Americans for using marijuana. Or as NORML says in a 1999 billboard campaign up in bus shelters around the city, “A Pot Smoker is Busted Every 45 Seconds — and You […]

“Rugged individualism” is actually a euphemism for Thomas Hobbes’ baseless concept of man’s natural condition as a war of everyone against everyone else. Even different species of wild animals (each of which has its own group soul, as opposed to humans, which have individual souls) cooperate with one another for their mutual benefit, so Hobbes […]

In an age of terrorism, guerilla and total warfare the medieval doctrine of Just War needs to be re-defined. Moreover, issues of legitimacy, efficacy and morality should not be confused. Legitimacy is conferred by institutions. Not all morally justified wars are, therefore, automatically legitimate. Frequently the efficient execution of a battle plan involves immoral or […]

How can any human being today, anywhere in this world, not be fearful and angry? We have turned into a society where hate is a primary emotion. People are killing people, nations are destroying nations; it’s a never ending battle of might over right. Is that magnificent line from Eden Ahbez’s song “Nature Boy” no […]

Why are intelligent people so afraid of the idea that the worlds may have been made by…intelligent design? Is it only a very un-intelligent fear that they may have been wrong? Is mighty science threatened? Or are they afraid that Science will be seen as the bully on the block who met up one night […]