Monthly Archives: July 2002
Salon articles
[Some RJish articles recently published on Salon.com. Some may require a Premium membership.] Fear and fatherhood: My son is sometimes afraid of me; I am more afraid of him. We both wrestle demons — monsters for him, parental anxieties for … Continue reading
Killing ourselves, loudly
Bad news for our fathers and grandfathers… and those of us they leave behind. This could easily have been the path my dad took… increasingly socially isolated, and a gun nut. Older White Male Suicide: Access to guns and a … Continue reading
Well-Adjusted Atheist Doesn’t Object to ‘God’
LA Times writer Martin Miller published a more eloquent statement of the sentiments I expressed on Monday on atheist ‘thumper’ Mike Newdow. I like his phrase better: “evangelical atheists.”
Medicine man’s goofy weather prayers
Apache pray for rain as wildfire ravages tribal timber, hunting grounds “As a flaming orange moon rose in the smoky sky, an Apache medicine man raised his voice in song to pray for rain to save both the Indians’ land … Continue reading
Atheist thumpers
Mike Newdow is the guy who brought the “one nation, under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance case to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. It’s clear after reading this article in the NY Times on him … Continue reading