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The Religiosity of “Religulous”

Tuesday, 17 March 2009, 11:54 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

Bill Maher’s excoriation of organized religion, “Religulous” (first part of the word religion, second part of ridiculous) does not fit easily into any comedic or cinematic category. It is at once scathingly funny, spot on, and disturbingly ... More >>

Pakistani Students, Meet Middle America

Friday, 13 March 2009, 2:45 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

Eleven university students from the tribal areas of Pakistan, the furthest reaches of George Bush’s ‘global war on terror,’ were guests of the local college for seven weeks. I had the chance to listen to and talk with them, within limits, about ... More >>

Martin LeFevre: Jesus in the Garden

Wednesday, 11 March 2009, 11:32 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

Even as a child, the story of Jesus sweating blood in the Garden of Gethsemane captured my imagination. And even as a teenager, I doubted the Catholic/Christian version of that event. More >>

Rush Limbaugh In 2012?

Friday, 6 March 2009, 12:11 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

The porcine blowhard Rush Limbaugh, dressed and acting like a deranged gangster, gave the keynote address at the Conservative Political Action Conference (C-PAC) on February 28. Rush looked like a latter-day Mussolini, and talked like a man preparing ... More >>

Martin LeFevre: Babies and Old Men

Tuesday, 3 March 2009, 10:01 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

After two weeks of inclement weather bringing much-needed rain to California, magnificent masses of cumulus clouds grace every quadrant of the sky. The snow-capped Coastal Range is as clear and spectacular as I’ve ever seen it. More >>

Martin LeFevre: “Day of Reckoning”

Friday, 27 February 2009, 10:32 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

Living in America, I have long wondered when life would place limits on a way of life so removed from reality, so dedicated to superficiality, so devoid of meaning. Now I have my answer. More >>

Martin LeFevre: The Roots of Racism

Wednesday, 25 February 2009, 1:18 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

Looking over the books on a friend’s bookshelf, I spotted a thick tome on evolution, replete with pictures of various fauna and flora. “You can have that one, I don’t believe in evolution anymore.” Dumbfounded, I replied, “Oh, and did you stop ... More >>

Martin LeFevre: Reincarnation Revisited

Wednesday, 18 February 2009, 11:13 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

For one intensely brilliant minute, a golden sun, more pure and riveting in its hue than I’ve ever seen it, hangs on the horizon. More >>

Pentagon Puppetmasters in Africa

Wednesday, 18 February 2009, 9:37 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

Barack Obama hasn’t used the phrase “war on terror” once since he took office about three weeks ago. Yet Obama’s use of drones to bomb the tribal regions in Pakistan a few days after taking office (thereby demonstrating his toughness) indicates ... More >>

Martin LeFevre: History Catches Up To America

Sunday, 8 February 2009, 10:23 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

In 1989, shortly after the Berlin Wall fell, I started a company with a leading Russian businessman under perestroika. It was clear that the Cold War would soon be over, and that the USSR and US needed each other. The Soviet Union fell two years later, ... More >>

Martin LeFevre: Aristotle’s Gridlock

Tuesday, 3 February 2009, 10:52 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

Aristotle laid out the grid for the Western mind. And with the ending of a distinctly different Eastern mind in the last two decades, it has become, for better but mostly worse, the world mind. More >>

Martin LeFevre: Obama In Lincoln’s League?

Friday, 30 January 2009, 9:04 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

We’re being fed a lot of pabulum here in the States about Barack Obama and his wunderbar Administration. Media mouthpieces are even starting to use the phrase ‘radical change.’ More >>

Martin LeFevre: The Sovereignty of Humanity

Friday, 23 January 2009, 3:33 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

One of the most telling moments during the Obama inauguration inanity came when George Bush was about to board the helicopter to leave DC in disgrace. Barack and Michelle Obama gave him a friendly, even warm parting, when a perfunctory goodbye would have ... More >>

Martin LeFevre: Dogs, Geese, and Miracles

Wednesday, 21 January 2009, 9:48 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

I am of the view that if one has no relationship to nature, one has no relationship to anyone or anything. And by relationship to nature I don’t mean having a dog. More >>

The Last Bubble—Barack Obama

Monday, 12 January 2009, 10:47 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

The picture of Barack Obama standing between Bush Senior and Bush Junior in the Oval Office, along with Clinton and Carter in a hands-across-the-presidencies motif that Obama requested, gave me the creeps. More >>

Martin LeFevre: Neuroscientific Nightmares

Friday, 9 January 2009, 11:05 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

Snow covers most of the ground on the north side of the mountain lake. The reservoir is so low that large swaths of barren, stump-strewn land lay between the water’s edge and the conifers. It is at once a picture of Sierra splendor, and moonscape. More >>

Dick Cheney: Evil Loves a Vacuum

Tuesday, 6 January 2009, 10:29 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

Revelations about the inner workings of the Bush Administration are coming fast and furious as the Bush-Cheney Administration comes to an ignominious end. The truism, ‘nature abhors a vacuum,’ goes a long way toward explaining Cheney’s power. ... More >>

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