Culture and Society

A Louisiana Congressional candidate launches an assault on what he perceives to be the combined political aims of the religious right and the Bush Administration.

...being able to have a say in the medicine I take, even if only in a small way, is a privilege. I would hate to have to give that up.

Polly Hewson offers personal asides about Franklin - "he never eats beef; it makes his back itch" - as you drop in on the life of the house.

The moon's dust-covered slopes are a skier's paradise.

Google widens its lead.

Fifty years ago the Adam company of the Silicon Valley Eden bravely raised its pointed little head in a former fruit-packing shed at 391 San Antonio Road, Mountain View.

And satire, not religious sensitivity, should remain sacrosanct.

Through the wonders of electro-ass analysis.

Current sparks of Islamic violence across the globe in feverish protest over a handful of stupid cartoons hammer home once again the reality that these guys need to find a hobby or something to distract them from a sense of aggrievement that always seems to be at near-boil. And if …

This world is a pretty spectacular place, and part of its charm is the diversity of thought, opinion, and belief. We all need to take more time to appreciate it, including me.