by Pleun Clara Bouricius | Nov 17, 2008 | The Public Humanist
My father, Hans Bouricius, was born in Delft, The Netherlands, in 1921. When the Netherlands were made part of the greater German Reich in May of 1940, he was nineteen, and about to join the navy. Unfortunately, the Royal Netherlands Navy had just moved to England....
by James Heflin | Nov 17, 2008 | Ten Gallon Liberal
What is it like to have a president who's extremely intelligent, and whose view of faith is mature, non-fundamentalist, and open? We're about to find out.The fundies are not going to like Obama's simultaneous born-again status and non-dogmatic stance. And...
by Northampton Redoubt | Nov 17, 2008 | Northampton Redoubt
Dave Reckhow, chair of Northampton's Board of Public Works, recently spoke with journalist Mary Serreze about the BPW's decision-making process on the Glendale Road Landfill expansion vote, about city council president Jim Dostal's recent resignation from...
by Cherchez La Femme | Nov 17, 2008 | Cherchez La Femme
I recently came across a vividly illustrated cookbook that utilizes a main ingredient of testicles in each of its recipes (the testicles were not human, but once belonged to bulls, calves, lambs, rams, stallions, ostriches and turkeys). It is a refreshingly simple...