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Daily Archives: July 25, 2008
Getting Naked to the Classics: Euripides’s “Bakkhai” Performed in the Raw
The above photo is from Dionysus in 69, a stage play of Euripides’s Bakkhai, performed in New York City in 1968. The play garnered a good deal of public controversy for the display of nudity in the performance. Euripides’s Bakkhai is, … Continue reading
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Tagged art, birth, Dionysus, Euripides, life, literature, Nietzsche, nudity, poetry, Santi Tafarella, sex, theater
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Aliens Have Visited Earth!: So Claims 77 Year Old Former Space-Walker, Apollo 14 Astronaut, Dr. Edgar Mitchell
According to an Australian news service (news.com.au), Dr. Edgar Mitchell, 77, one of the astronauts on the 1971 Apollo 14 moon mission, and the world record holder for space walking (over nine hours), stunned an Australian radio interviewer, making the claim that ETs … Continue reading
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Tagged agnosticism, aliens, astronomy, atheism, Dr. Edgar Mitchell, evidence, reason, Santi Tafarella, skepticism, space, UFOs
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Think, and Think Different: An Image of William F. Buckley, Catholic Intellectual
Whether you are a liberal or a conservative, religious or secular, William F. Buckley can be a role model, for he embodied civility and thoughtfulness.
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Tagged agnostic, atheist, Catholic, Christianity, literature, Politics, PZ Myers, Santi Tafarella, skepticism, William F. Buckley
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From Torquemada to the War on Terror: A Review of AC Grayling’s Latest Book, “Toward the Light of Liberty”
A.C. Grayling is a British philosopher. He is a friend of Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, and although he is not as well known as these two authors, his latest book, Toward the Light of Liberty (2007) is every bit as … Continue reading
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Tagged AC Grayling, agnosticism, atheism, Christianity, Christopher Hitchens, enlightenment, Islam, John Locke, religion, Richard Dawkins, Santi Tafarella
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Santi Tafarella v. PZ Myers: An Agnostic Urges Liberals, Secular and Religious, to Boycott PZ Myers
University of Minnesota biologist, and now illiberal iconoclast, PZ Myers, has managed to get hold of a consecrated host and desecrate it. Here’s his post on it: OK, time for the anticlimax. I know some of you have proposed intricate … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostic, atheist, Bible, Catholic, Christian, Christopher Hedges, Christopher Hitchens, Politics, PZ Myers, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Santi Tafarella
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Prometheus Unbound 