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David Horton: Dream of money-bags tonight

All of us who concerned about the future of the planet have misunderestimated the opposition from those who are not. We thought that the flooding of web sites, talk back radio, television chat shows, letters columns in newspapers, blogs, with tens of ...

From DAVID HORTON, Huffington Post,  21 Nov 2009

David Horton: You're no Galileo

You all know about Godwin's Law - first person to introduce Hitler into a thread loses the argument. Well, I'm about to invent a new law, let's call it (oh, I don't know, do you really think so? all right then) Horton's Law. Very similar idea, ...

From DAVID HORTON, Huffington Post,  12 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Richard Lindzen,  James Hansen

David Horton: Thank god I'm an atheist

From time to time some religious leader, somewhere, seeking to be provocative, will announce, smugly, that of course all morality comes from religion and therefore atheists, those scum of the Earth, have no morality. Let's leave aside for the moment, ...

From DAVID HORTON, Huffington Post,  30 Oct 2009

David Horton: Sh-t happens

The day after the Samoan tsunami I heard a tv reporter, after recounting the death and destruction and misery and coming plagues, say "their Christian faith will comfort them". It's the kind of thing you say on these occasions of course, and people nod ...

From DAVID HORTON, Huffington Post,  5 Oct 2009

David Horton: Cover up that chimp

I blame creationism for everything I don't blame corporate media for in my ongoing attempts to come to terms with what is wrong with the world of the 21st Century. But something I hadn't previously put on the creationist list was oppression of female ...

From DAVID HORTON, Huffington Post,  22 Sep 2009

David Horton: Keep Evolution Out of Schools

Look, like everyone else I have no trouble dismissing creationists as bat-shit crazy religious fundamentalists who wouldn't know a scientific fact if the ghost of Richard Feynman bit them on the backside. No trouble at all, and I am always happy to ...

From DAVID HORTON, Huffington Post,  15 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Richard Feynman,  Robert Chambers

David Horton: Marked for life

Have tattoos when young, regret them later, but it is too late, the indelible stain is there for always. The kind of person you are in later life, not necessarily the kind of person who would have tattoos, has been compromised by the decisions you made ...

From DAVID HORTON, Huffington Post,  8 Sep 2009

David Horton: Childish things

A year ago I nearly had a fatal heart attack. Fortunately my wife spotted that the warning signs I had been either ignoring or explaining away (indigestion, flu, lung problems) were serious and whisked me off to hospital. Even then it wasn't cut and ...

From DAVID HORTON, Huffington Post,  2 Sep 2009

David Horton: For the least

Just when I think the hypocrisy of fundamentalist christians can't get worse. When I read of support for the Iraq war, hatred of immigrants, the killing of doctors, the prayers for the death of a president, the church that encourages bringing guns to ...

From DAVID HORTON, Huffington Post,  29 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Linda Hirshman

David Horton: Clowns to the right of me

In recent years, a tactic of the Right, promoted by Murdoch and his clones, has been to decry the role of the elites in government. The last thing you want in government, according to this view, is anyone with intelligence, education, knowledge, ...

From DAVID HORTON, Huffington Post,  24 Aug 2009

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