Pop Culture

Ok - I am a pop culture junkie. I love Duran Duran - still, I watch reality tv (not all of them - I do have some standards), and I get excited every time there is a new muppet movie coming out. My family wonders why I enjoy lowbrow entertainment, but have come to accept it. Anyway - enjoy..

This section contains my thoughts and opinions and speculations about the things I like and don't like about pop culture.

Politics

Essays, commentaries, suggestions, on issues affecting Americans and what just plain annoys me. My grandfather Shaw wrote a political column for a paper back in IL, so I guess this runs in the family.

Politics do matter. To everyone. If we want to live in a compassionate and just society, we need to elect politicians that will represent the people and not special interests. Pay attention to what they do, not what they say.

Humanism

Jennifer Hancock is a Humanist activist. In fact, she worked professionally for a Humanist organization from 2001 until 2007. She joined the Humanist movement back in 1994. So, she has a lot to say on the subject.

Collected here are her writings on the subject of Humanism, religion and morality.

My Advice

Billy Graham is a well-known Christian Evangelist who publishes a syndicated advice column in papers around the country.  For whatever reason, I read his column and am constantly struck at how bad I think his advice is.  Perhaps it is because I am a Humanist.  But boy, is he off the mark.

Sometimes I think the same thing about Dear Abby and others. The obvious question then is how would I answer these questions if I were running an advice column.  What would a Humanist advise. So here is my advice.”