Michael Behe has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Biochemistry.

We Get Mail Dept.Like many Americans, Mike from Manomet, (whose real identity will not be revealed for his protection), has had enough of network television. He writes: Where do you get your news? I’m sick of the f&%!king mainstream media; most of it is unwatchable bullshit: spin, red vs. blue, R’s vs. D’s, black people… Continue reading

Thoughts for a Friday At one time there was a popular romantic picture of the courageous man who had rejected the props of religion and its illusory comforts, who stood erect on the darkling plain, swept with confused alarms of struggle and fight, facing boldly the fact that life does not provide him with any… Continue reading

Welcome to Brave New World: From a pro-life standpoint, the whole thing is grotesque. But from a pro-choice standpoint, it’s agonizing. One woman who wanted a child aborted, in her own body, another woman’s healthy, wanted child. It’s generally understood that if you hire a surrogate to carry your embryo, she, not you, gets to… Continue reading

Thoughts for St. Patrick’s DayI found this extraordinary piece of Boston history at an antique shop in Newton Upper Falls. You can’t make out the date in the lower right hand corner of this rendition, but it says 1915. Not even a century ago, but it’s right around the time that both my grandfathers had… Continue reading