http://www.ethicalrealist.com Ethical Realism Sat, 16 Jan 2010 23:17:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Nine months flew by since my last entry here, and all I can say is the more things Change, the more they stay the same. Since then, Obama fever dropped down to just above normal, as even some of the more faithful got to reason and critical thinking, and started ... http://www.ethicalrealist.com/it-is-what-you-make-it/ These last few weeks since the inauguration, in the news and on the streets, I’ve heard and read mostly about three things: job losses, the stimulus package and drone attacks on the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan. People are getting very nervous. From talking to friends, I know that if you ... http://www.ethicalrealist.com/since-inauguration-day/ BY M. PORTA Continuity is hard to come by, but for as long as I can remember I’ve always been a free agent. Not what you’d call a joiner. And so when everyone here in New York was falling in love with Obama (whom I had initially preferred over Hillary), I ... http://www.ethicalrealist.com/husband-and-wife-two-sides-of-the-center-and-still-friends/ One thing I like that the President-elect and his transition team have done is to ask us, as individuals, to participate in the new government. After Tom Daschle was nominated for Health and Human Services Secretary, I received an email from John Podesta, co-chair of the Obama-Biden Transition Project, requesting ... http://www.ethicalrealist.com/wondering-yes-we-can-or-lets-do-it/ With Rick Warren appointed to give the invocation at Barack Obama’s inauguration, suddenly the gay community takes notice. I’ve been astonished by a number of gays and gay-friendlies I know, who voted for Obama completely unaware that he is against gay marriage. It’s not surprising to me that an evangelical pastor, ... http://www.ethicalrealist.com/tolerance-equality-and-unity/ BY KRIS BRITT I have an idea. When I lived in Denmark around 1990, they had at least seven political parties, and for campaigning, each party had an equal time slot on the same television channel to present themselves, and I'm pretty sure that's all they were allowed to do for campaigning ... http://www.ethicalrealist.com/the-government-channel/ Last week on Huffington Post, I saw an article seriously questioning Barack Obama. They may have published other such missives before, but this was the first one I had seen. The Robert Scheer column expressed a few beefs with Obama’s selections for his team to get us out of the ... http://www.ethicalrealist.com/why-huff-post-should-lay-off-p-bo/ As Barack Obama chooses his cabinet, I am watching with cautious optimism. I'm glad that Hillary Clinton will likely be Secretary of State, and I wish I felt more excited about the whole thing. But throughout this election season, I became increasingly disillusioned with the Democratic Party, and I've yet ... http://www.ethicalrealist.com/9/