Category Archives: High Horse

Light a Candle

By Richard | Published March 25, 2012

You’ve seen the Hollywood propaganda a dozen times. The intrepid hero is caught by the bad guys, tied and stripped, revealing a knotted chest and bulging biceps. He remains defiant, but then the sadistic torturer arrives, eyes gleaming with cruel delight. The camera cuts, but we hear sickening thuds, blood-curdling screams, and the brutal grind [...]

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Equals

By Richard | Published March 9, 2011

A day late, but the message is relevant all year round. For our mothers, our wives, our daughters. Via Kim Covert.

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The Global Warming Denial Machine

By Richard | Published March 2, 2011

Let’s begin with the preliminaries. The first is that global warming isn’t a scientific theory, it’s a scientific fact. The time for debate has ended. We can still argue over tipping points and the minutia — like when the arctic will become ice free during the summer months, or how much world sea levels will [...]

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Teaching Evolution Badly in American Classrooms

By Richard | Published February 27, 2011

When it comes to scientific fact versus scientific theory, many people are confused. Occasionally, the terms can be applied to the same principle. Evolution is both a theory and a fact. Over the last few centuries, the evidence supporting evolution as the mechanism for the origin of species has become so overwhelming and so incontrovertible [...]

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And Then It Goes Back

By Richard | Published February 4, 2011

I woke up thinking about Haiti and how we need to fight to feed the world. More than a year has passed since the earthquake, and so little has changed.

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A Difference of Opinion

By Richard | Published October 29, 2010

Soon after I started blogging, another writer told me that she didn’t want me to read or comment on her site ever again. It’s almost amusing that I could inspire such animosity because for the larger part of my life, I wouldn’t say shit if my mouth was full of it. I walked very softly, [...]

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May All Be Fed

By Richard | Published June 24, 2010

It’s funny. I learned more about ethics and social justice in a biology class than any dozen religious sermons that I can remember. Most people are surprised to discover — as I did during an undergraduate lecture — that we can take dramatic steps towards feeding the world’s poor, and it has little to do [...]

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