Look At It This Way

As a youngster, I had a few friends who went to Catholic school. Years later, I taught for a time at a Catholic college. As a result, I heard many references to what has come to be called the Miracle of Fatima. Most of these tales followed the same basic plot line. In the early part of the 20th Century, some children in a Portuguese village saw an angelic figure descend from the sky. Read More

A while back, I was asked to speak at a convention of the world's smartest people - MENSA. My topic was Look At It This Way. My point was that archeologists looking at people years off and anthropologists looking at people miles off make it plain that what we believe to be true is not so much a fact as a simple function of time and space. Read More

Six Medical Myths Busted (by Jocob Teitelbaum, MD) is an unusual piece because the good doctor actually suggests that just because it feels good, it may not be bad. When was the last time you heard that? Usually our Puritan background comes to the fore and we're deluged with messages such as the one I recently heard from a TV Evangelist: If you're having fun, you know you're hurting somebody. Read More

Recently, I wrote about the popular - though thoroughly neurotic - need to try and control everybody else's sex life. A good example was the city councilman who told a local newspaper reporter that he spent virtually all of his waking hours searching out pornographic threats to his community. Read More