After enlightenment, the laundry.—Zen proverb

“The men and women on death row have some combination of bad genes, bad parents, bad environments, and bad ideas (and the innocent, of course, have supremely bad luck). Which of these quantities, exactly, were they responsible for? No human being is responsible for his genes or his upbringing, yet we have every reason to … More Quote of the Day

“I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three”—Elayne Boosler

“Confidence is what you have before you understand the problem.” ― Woody Allen

“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.” ― George Orwell

“Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.” ― Paul Bloom

“There is a massive, irreconcilable conflict between science and religion. Religion was humanity’s original cosmology, biology and anthropology. It provided explanations for the origin of the world, life and humans. Science now gives us increasingly complete explanations for those big three. We know the origins of the universe, the physics of the big bang and … More Quote of the Day

“There has to be a common sense cutoff for craziness, and when that threshold is exceeded, then the criteria for publication should get far, far more stringent. Otherwise, the floodgates will be open to crackpots of all stripes — and opening the floodgates to the frequent publication of crackpot ideas in top-notch journals would, in … More Quote of the Day

“Nothing that a Christian, a Muslim, and a Hindu can experience—self-transcending love, ecstasy, bliss, inner light—constitutes evidence in support of their traditional beliefs, because their beliefs are logically incompatible with one another. A deeper principle must be at work.” ― Sam Harris, Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion    

“I literally could be listening to Bibi Netanyahu right now at AIPAC, and it wouldn’t sound any different than Hillary Clinton.”—Naomi Dann, media coordinator for the group Jewish Voice for Peace http://www.salon.com/2016/03/22/she_sounds_like_netanyahu_hillary_clinton_goes_extra_hawkish_in_her_biased_die_hard_pro_israel_aipac_speech/