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TPO

Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot conf

About Me

Internet Radio &
Downloadable Podcasts...



Freethinkers & Seekers of Truth
James Randi


Penn & Teller



Robert Green Ingersoll
The Complete Works
(1833-1899)


Bill Maher


Neil DeGrasse Tyson


Frederick Douglass


George Carlin


Carl Sagan
(1934-1996)


Bill Moyers


Richard Dawkins


Reginald V. Finley


Charles Darwin
(1809-1882)


Sam Harris


Thomas Huxley
(1825-1895)


The Age Of Reason & Other Works
(1737-1809)


Thomas Jefferson
Historical Writings
(1743-1826)


Emma Goldman's Collected Works
(1869-1940)


Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
(1835-1910)


Bertrand Russell
(1872-1970)


Julia Sweeney


Paul Kurtz


Isaac Asimov
(1920-1992)


Robert A. Heinlein
(1907-1988)


Ethan Allen
(1738-1789)


My Interests



One Nation
Under the Constitution


I'd like to meet:

Favorite Blogs

News, Science, Activism
& Other Links...

Music:



Books:



Philip K. Dick
(1928-1982)


Genesis:
The Scientific Quest for Life's Origins
by Robert M. Hazen


Quantum Leaps in the Wrong Direction:
Where Real Science Ends...and Pseudoscience Begins


Ben Bova
(1932-Prensent)


In the Beat of a Heart:
Life, Energy, and the Unity of Nature

My Blog

Weeds!!! Watch all episodes from this series here.

If you haven't seen this show yet, check it out. For those of you who have, you can always watch them a again before the new season starts. Personally, I think this is one of the best cable shows...
Posted by TPO on Sat, 24 Feb 2007 09:04:00 PST

Anna Nicole Smith, Paris, Britney, Lindsay and Nicole: Are we amusing ourselves to death?

Wow folks, there's a lot of important stuff going on in the world, but unfortunately for the world, most Americans remain sheepishly ignorant of it all. Gonzales is busy rewriting the Constitution and...
Posted by TPO on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 06:56:00 PST

Seeing is not believing: Remarkable bionic eye illuminates the great fallacy of ID.

How awesome is this!!! -TPO Seeing is not believing Terry Byland's remarkable bionic eye illuminates the great fallacy of ID: nature is often neither intelligent nor well-designed. February 20, 20...
Posted by TPO on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 06:16:00 PST

Bush's AIDS Initiative: Too Little Choice, Too Much Ideology

Someone emailed me recently about my last blog: Contraception as a matter of right and public health under attack by religious right. In this email the person expressed extreme skepticism at my alarm ...
Posted by TPO on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 10:27:00 PST

WTF? Contraception as a matter of right and public health under attack by religious right.

WTF? Every time I think the progressive and secular community is making progress in America I discover another freedom under assault by the religious right. According to Tom Flynn in the February/Marc...
Posted by TPO on Sun, 18 Feb 2007 12:38:00 PST

Are Evangelical Atheists Too Outspoken?

Here is an editorial from secular humanist Paul Kurtz who happens to also be one of my favorite philosophers. In this editorial, Kurtz speaks in defense of fellow freethinkers Richard Dawkins, Sam Har...
Posted by TPO on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:52:00 PST

No one who disbelieves in God and in an afterlife can possibly be trusted.

These are words spoken by President Ronald Reagan in the early 80's. Now at the time these words were spoken I was too young to be aware of what a slap in the face this was to millions of Americans an...
Posted by TPO on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 07:00:00 PST

Remembering Carl Sagan (1934-1996)

This is my contribution to the Sagan Memorial Blog-a-thon. I will continue to post material about or by Carl Sagan to this blog as a tribute to the influence he continues to have on my life. Thanks,-T...
Posted by TPO on Sun, 28 Jan 2007 03:55:00 PST

Chain Letters Anonymous

Sponsored by Skeptical Inquirer magazine...>..>..>You receive an e-mail chain letter, and you know you shouldn't forward it to ten of your friends: they'll curse your name for clogging up their mailbo...
Posted by TPO on Sat, 27 Jan 2007 11:36:00 PST

Victimless Crimes and The influence of faith on our criminal laws.

In the United States, and in much of the rest of the world, it is currently illegal to seek certain experiences of pleasure. Seek pleasure by a forbidden means, even in the privacy of your own home, a...
Posted by TPO on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 03:04:00 PST