Comment by Richard Goscicki on August 14, 2012 at 12:54am

Joan, thanks for the compliment and the support you’re shown me.  I’m pushing 70 so let me offer some avuncular advice.  Every now and then, you might come upon a situation where you say to yourself:  “No human being could possibly be that stupid.”  I mean… if someone writes or says:

If rich people pay less taxes, that means they’ll have more money two hire mades, cooks, chauffeurs and don’t forget illegal Mexicans to mow the lawn.  Their people two, ya know? 

That should be a red flag. 

Consider the logic of it.  Rich people should be allowed to pay lower tax rates so they can hire more servants, thus lowering the unemployment rate.  You’d have to be some sort of brain-washed Catholic to think that way.  And the bit about the illegal aliens.  With all the problems this country has, this asshole is worried about these invaders finding jobs mowing lawns. Would you want to support five kids by mowing lawns?  It wouldn’t pay to get up in the morning.  And the rich people act like they’re doing you a favor by hiring you at minimum wage. 

To me, it’s so stupid it’s funny. 

Post script:  there’s a whole chapter in Mirror Reversal written in that discombobulated, confusing style.  Advertising tycoon, Meara Sniffington Meyer says:  “Dat’s not hippocritical, dare’s absolutely nothin’ wrong wit’ givin’ cash ta uddas less fortunate.”

I wrote this stuff four years ago and I still get a laugh out of it. 

 

 

 

 

Comment by Susan Stanko on August 14, 2012 at 5:46am

@Gary I agree.  Ms. Ward did the right thing.

Comment by Brian Magee on August 14, 2012 at 12:52pm

From the book Consilience by E.O. Wilson, AHA's 1999 Humanist of the Year.

Comment by Geraldo Cienmarcos on August 15, 2012 at 8:08am

Good, respectful penetrating interview:

ON You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WDURT-b_8s&feature=em-uploademail

Nate Phelps is the son of Fred Phelps, infamous pastor of Kansas' Westboro Baptist Church, an entity which asserts that "God Hates Fags," that President Obama is the AntiChrist, and that the terrorist attacks of 9/11 were God's punishment upon the United States.

Comment by Brian Magee on August 15, 2012 at 10:10am

Humanist Press author of Hope in Small Doses Nikki Stern is a guest on the most recent Skepticality, the official podcast of The Skeptics Society & Skeptic Magazine.

Information on the book is available at www.hopeinsmalldoses.com

Comment by Brian Magee on August 16, 2012 at 12:05pm

Listen to Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry’s speech after receiving the 1991 Humanist Arts Award from the American Humanist Association.

http://www.americanhumanist.org/HNN/details/2012-08-from-the-aha-ar...

Comment by Jennifer Hancock on August 19, 2012 at 12:33pm

Started an online Humanist Bible Study group - check it out and come join us - http://humanistbible.blogspot.com/

Comment by Joan Denoo on August 20, 2012 at 1:53pm

Susan Stanko, Thanks for the heads-up. I was careless and didn't make the connection when I read the attachment. 

Comment by Brian Magee on August 21, 2012 at 9:06am

Just in time for back-to-school activities, the AHA's Kochar Humanist Education Center has a new website!

Please visit (and share with your friends) the resources available, including an extensive library of curriculum resources for teachers; the Many Faces of Humanism online course; lesson plans for children; adult education manual; information on the Humanist Teacher Corps (including how to join); the Ten Commitments, providing a moral foundation for education, and more!

Comment by Joan Denoo on August 22, 2012 at 9:47pm

 I am 76 years old; how will I spend the remaining days of my life?

 Will I submit to habits of the past and build shields against fear, pain and anger that filled my life and perpetuate into future thoughts that I am weak and powerless over events in my life?

 Or will I create habits of cynicism allowing me to remain in the known and familiar, vulnerable, weak and afraid?

 Or will I risk creating new habits focused on future hopes and aspirations while claiming my strength, power, and gratitude for being alive and participating in wonder of life, lived fully.

 I am afraid, but fear is a familiar emotion and I can transform it into energy of regeneration and renewal.

 What will it cost me if I fail? Rejection? Criticism? Judgment? Oh! Those also are familiar emotions.

 Something births within me; life’s force surges to move me beyond the fear of men I love. I claim my right to live, to breath, to drink in rich nectar of being, of doing those things that I am particularly good at, and especially enjoy. I can forgive myself for not being perfect; that I am perfectly imperfect and I am enough. 

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