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Moira Donegan’s powerful piece on the state of Idaho arguing before the supreme court to have that state’s total ban on abortion enshrined in statutory law, in defiance of the federal Emtala law. That 1986 law is […]

Laurie B #104, I was moved to speak at my mother’s funeral. I noted her markedly altruistic personality, her idealism, her natural deep and tender care for others. I said she was just always constituted that […]

Yesterday, the high court in New York granted a new trial to Harry Weinstein.  He was released from the New York prison while the district attorney decides whether or not to retry the case.  The good news is t […]

Just in case you haven’t seen it yet, Richard has posted a moving tribute to Daniel Dennett on his Poetry of Reality YouTube Channel. See here: In Memoriam: Dan Dennett on Mortality, Life, and Existence

Strato #100 The ones I have been to have been profoundly dull, following the funeral parlour’s set formula, only notable for what goes unsaid.  You see the problem. Now, what are you gonna do about it […]

so glad to see the site back Thanks, offg. We’re going to have to ask everyone to bear with us a bit longer, though, as it’s still a bit sporadic and the website manager is still working on it. Feel free to […]

so glad to see the site back thanks mods strato 100 “He couldn’t help it! and none of us can help it was just telling a friend that those fighting in ukraine can’t help themselves also looking back to dan […]

So here is Dennett (in a Richard Carrier report) rather devastating Sam Harris over free will, precisely because Sam is a rhetorician (like Hitchens) before being a rigorous thinker. (Sam is also a poor […]

philrimmer #96, I’d be interested to read what Richard Carrier would now have to say, hopefully having read Robert Sapolsky’s Determined: Life Without Free Will, 2023. Well, I can testify that the concatenation […]

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