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By Evan Bernstein, on October 9th, 2012 A natural disaster is being reported today by Reuters out of Gambia.
The President of Gambia, Yahya Jammeh, is putting his citizens in extreme risk by telling people that his slurry of “natural” herbs can cure people infected with HIV and/or AIDS.
He went on television this past Sunday night to proclaim that he [...]
By Evan Bernstein, on March 7th, 2012 We have not one, but TWO delicious examples of pareidolia in the news this week. Pareidolia is the phenomena of seeing patterns in objects, such as a face in the clouds. The human mind has a natural disposition to try and make order out of chaos, and faces are the most common pattern discerned out of randomness. This is because some [...]
By Brian Trent, on December 16th, 2011 An authentic original. An uncompromising independent, roguish and brilliant, and one of the brightest lights in the world today. Christopher Hitchens died Thursday night at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston of pneumonia, following his epic battle with cancer. He was 62.
His bestseller God is Not Great is what propelled Hitchens into the public spotlight [...]
By Evan Bernstein, on November 7th, 2011 I live about 5 miles from the site of one of America’s most grizzly multiple murders in recent times. What has become known as “The Connecticut Home Invasion Murders”, this widely reported case has become the standard by which all other home invasions have since been measured.
On July 23, 2007, The Petit Family [...]
By Evan Bernstein, on October 17th, 2011 Ask 100 clergy the reasons why they have lost their faith and you will likely get 100 different answers. But one thing they all have in common is that there is a place they can all go to discuss their reasons why in a new and (hopefully) inspirational search for the answers that their respective [...]
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