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Bisexual Species: Unorthodox Sex in the Animal Kingdom: Scientific American: "“The more homosexuality, the more peaceful the species”"

I could have told you that.

And I couldn't agree more.
Dispatches from the Culture Wars: Patriotism, Conservative and Liberal: "My allegiance is not to a nation and much less to a flag, but to a set of principles. When my country supports those principles, I support my country; when it fails to do so, I do not support it. America can only be great if America is good, if our actions are in line with the ideals we so loudly proclaim. It is a cliche, but it remains true that actions speak far louder than words."

It's a tiny mention, but a huge step.

Text of President Barack Obama's inaugural address - Yahoo! News: "We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus — and non-believers."

Nod to Ezra Klein.

Tom Flynn at Free Thinking writes about that problematic word that I despise, spirtual.

"(T)hese seasoned nurse managers were talking about patients whom the nurses believed they must not touch, or comfort, or support in any human way – out of respect for the worldviews of patients who disdain ordinary human contact because they’re not spiritual."

A Spirited Misunderstanding | Center for Inquiry