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Ted Haggard is back. You remember him, right? The former influential evangelical church leader who was discovered to have a gay-sex-with-male-prostitute-and-possible-love-for-methamphetamine habit on the side and is today insisting he’s entirely heterosexual? I’ve written him an open letter. *Clears throat.* ———————————– Dear Ted, online personal cash loans You’re gay, dude. ...

I’ve just spent 30 minutes on-air discussing with my boss the game called ‘football’ by approximately 96 percent of the world and ‘soccer’ by the remaining 4 percent, most of whom live in the United States of America. He thinks the game is boring, that there’s not enough scoring, and there’s ...

We’re all very well aware, by this stage, what an environmental catastrophe the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has turned out to be. But what continues to amaze me is the blame game being played out across the media every day, spun by people who are ideologically ...

Here are some good resources for those who want to read more about the growing sector of Christianity that supports and welcomes the gay community. (1) A letter by the influential UK evangelical leader Roy Clements to a young man called Michael, who wrote him concerned with his endorsement of ...

Lest I fall into the trap of thinking that big political problems have simple solutions, I’ll say this carefully. We’ve created a brouhaha in Arizona by opting to enforce federal immigration laws at the state level. It’s estimated that non-effective enforcement of those laws by the U.S. Government, including a ...

David Arquette – actor, director, producer, screenwriter, husband of actress Courtney Cox – won the lottery last week by being given the rarely-offered opportunity to sit in on the world’s best radio program with the 60-plus-strong cast and crew of The Howard Stern Show. He wrote a letter of thanks ...

“How now brown cow.” There. I said it. I said it here, and I said it on my radio show yesterday afternoon. Nobody called the show in response to my uttering ‘How now brown cow’. Nobody told me I shouldn’t have said it, or expressed shock or anger about it. ...

In a world where earthquakes rumble and volcanoes erupt, where humans seek to explain ‘Bad’ in meaningful ways, for whom logic still competes with emotion, it isn’t surprising that dots are sometimes connected using God as an explanation. Will Crawley wonders if it’s only a matter of time before people ...

Are the calories consumed in restaurants beloved of liberals any healthier than the calories consumed in the multinational outlets they despise? You’d think so, listening to Mark Morford. Dear Mr. Morford, I’ll begin by agreeing with you that the KFC Double Down sandwich, composed of two pieces of fried chicken, ...

A few hundred years ago, a little movement called the Enlightenment caused us to take a very useful step in the name of human progress; that was the development of and reliance upon the scientific method. Reliance upon reason and evidence, and skepticism about everything else. I say ‘useful’ because, ...

The health care reform bill signed into law this week by President Obama is significant and historic, but I’m having a hard time explaining to some of my more conservative friends why I’m not loudly denouncing it for its infringements on the market. Conservatives are up in arms … livid. ...

On Friday, I had an on-air exchange that fascinated me. I had just replayed a portion of my interview with Dr. Nick Bostrom, an Oxford University professor and well-known transhumanist, on the subject of his Simulation Argument. This is the paper that spurred a serious academic discussion in 2003 on ...

I cleaned out my desk today. Yikes. I’m not a hoarder – normally I’m a brutal junker of everything my family holds near and dear – but my office desk gets overlooked, so here it is, a list of items I’ve removed from the desk drawers today. 3 cellphones, chargers, ...

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Happy New Year! I first heard about Avatar 2 years ago. No movie could live up to a two-year hype, surely? In fact, this film in many ways surpasses my initial expectations. The trailers do not do justice to the results of this new paradigm in movie-making technology. This is ...

1) Alcohol education starts at home, and yet we have outlawed the act of learning in the average home (most people move out long before they turn 21 and therefore, under the law, parents have no chance to permit legal responsible drinking in the home). 2) When people learn from ...

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I’ve experienced life with both kinds of health care system. Living in the United Kingdom, I grew up with the ‘universal’ model: government health care, paid for by taxes and free at the point of use. And, for the past five years, I’ve been in the United States with its ...

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I have taken, but not inhaled. This is not a movie review. I am not qualified to write a review on New Moon, which I saw at the stroke of midnight in one of two packed screens at my local quadplex. The reason I say I’m not qualified is that ...