Hypocrisy galore

STORY SUMMARY Editorial, Daily Star, Lebanon This week’s news of offensive cartoons in Europe is nothing new, although the party doing the complaining should take a long look at itself in the mirror. In recent years, countries such as Denmark and France have received international attention for the publication of […]

Words, Science, and Religion

Source: KPB Stevens To my mind, religion only increases its beauty by allowing scientific words and phrases (by which I mean concepts) to change it.  When I think about science, I think about it religiously.  That doesn’t mean that I try to ignore its truths and make it conform to […]

‘Outrage’, indeed!

Source: ET We were ‘outraged’ by the killing of well over a hundred — we’ll never know the exact number — Hazara Shia, including women and old men and little children, slaughtered in a massive explosion caused by an estimated 1,000 kilogrammes of explosives in Hazara Town, Quetta, where they […]