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The Original Holy Land
November 21st, 2008 at 5:11 pm » Comments (0)
What place do most of us think of when we hear the term "Holy Land"? Perhaps we ought to think of Afghanistan. Let us begin by looking at that highly influential proto-western ...more »The Great Peace of the Magi
November 13th, 2008 at 10:31 am » Comments (0)
Plutarch, in his treatise on Isis and Osiris, describes the great peace that the Magi foretold: But the time appointed by fate is coming, ... when the earth becoming plain and ...more »Good, Evil, and Plutarch
November 11th, 2008 at 12:03 am » Comments (0)
Henry David Thoreau, an obscure 19th Century classicist and journalist who earned a reputation as a decent translator of Greek works, once reflected on the profound presence of Evil in ...more »Honorary Faggot
November 9th, 2008 at 3:49 am » Comments (1)
I was terribly nervous the night before election day. I had volunteered to work all day for the No-on-8 campaign. The training had been rather intimidating, and I was afraid ...more »Zarathustra the Yes Man.
November 7th, 2008 at 9:56 pm » Comments (0)
There is perhaps no message more essential to Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra than the whole-hearted affirmation of life as an individual experience. I am a blesser and a Yea-sayer, ... into ...more »Bigots Need Your Dollars!
November 1st, 2008 at 5:32 pm » Comments (0)
BIGOTS AGAINST LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS need your money! They are registered with the California Secretary of State as proponents of Proposition 8, but as of yet ...more »No. 8 is No on 8
November 1st, 2008 at 2:01 pm » Comments (1)
Steve Young remains a class act, and his wife Barbara rocks! Prop 8 R.I.P.! Steve Young's Home Displays 'No On 8' Signs. more »Marriage Against the Mob
October 31st, 2008 at 6:22 pm » Comments (0)
Don't let the mob insert discrimination into the California state constitution! California is a republic! Not an anarchistic mobocracy! Let's defend our constitution! I attended a No on Prop 8 "visibility" activity at San ...more »Killing your Buddhas
October 25th, 2008 at 10:37 pm » Comments (2)
Continuing our discussion of the correspondences between Heraclitus and the Zarathustras, we have the directive that each one find truth for oneself; that one must never follow. As the old ...more »Who’s Behind Prop 8 (other than the Mormons)
October 25th, 2008 at 4:05 am » Comments (6)
It's no secret that Mormons are a tremendous force behind funding for the Yes on 8 Campaign. According to Mormons for Proposition 8, 46% of contributions to the campaign (about ...more »