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We have all seen sayings like "Right to health care" or "Right to education" or any variation there of.  The question is, how does one define a right?  If you go here  (scroll down for full definition) you can see that it is described as that which is good, proper, moral or just.  But is that really the case?  Those four words used to define rights are subjective. How subjective?  Very.  In traditional Muslim teaching it is good, proper, moral, and just to stone a woman that has committed adultery.  So according to that culture, it is a woman's right to get stoned to death.  Yet many other cultures consider this to be wrong, improper, immora

Lots of people are starting to freak out about climate change.  Admittedly, we should be concerned, but not hysterical.  A quick review of the the past tells us some very interesting things, if you are willing to look. First, the idea that the Earth only recently started warming is completely and totally wrong.  The planet was in an ice age between 18,000 and 10,000 years ago.  In order for an ice age to end, the average temperature has to be warm enough to melt more snow and ice than forms.  This means that the end of the last ice age marks the point that the Earth started warming.  It also means that ALL of the worlds glaciers have been me

My final paper for my writing class could be on any topic.  So I dusted off the old journal titled "A Push, In the Shape of a Shared Dream" and expanded on it.  Here it is.  I think it really came out better. I was watching some old episodes of the Outer Limits and got to thinking that there is nothing like it on television anymore.  This was a show that would often make people think and dream.  By using science fiction, it provided a commentary on assorted issues.  Now days we have "reality shows" that are so far removed from reality that they don't even provide good entertainment, much less make us dream. Perhaps it was thinking of all th