by Barry Fagin | Mar 11, 2013 | Philosophy & Ethics, Politics & Law, Society & Culture
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, 2009-10-29} Ten more Americans died this week in a senseless and pointless war in Afghanistan, fighting an enemy with allegedly supernatural powers that is impossible to kill. I’m talking about the opium poppy. Three DEA...
by Barry Fagin | Mar 4, 2013 | Philosophy & Ethics, Politics & Law, Religion & Spirituality, Science & Pseudoscience
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, 2009-10-14} The “Cloth of Turin” is once again in the news. (It’s not intellectually honest to say “Shroud of Turin”, since there is no evidence it ever held a body). Yet another claim of Cloth believers has been proven...
by Barry Fagin | Feb 25, 2013 | Uncategorized
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, 2009-10-01} By now, I’m sure Monday’s Gazette front-page story on “Bikini Baristas” has generated plenty of letters of outrage. “Cancel my subscription!” “Cheap and tawdry!” “Tabloid journalism!” Maybe there’s a letter...
by Barry Fagin | Feb 18, 2013 | Uncategorized
{Published in The Barefoot Bioengineer, 2009-09-16} “Woe unto my soul! A great man has died. Would that my eyes were a pool of tears that I could weep for him.” I hadn’t thought about the rabbi’s words at my grandfather’s funeral for 25 years. Then I picked up...
by Barry Fagin | Feb 11, 2013 | Uncategorized
{Colorado Springs Gazette. 2012-12-27} What will the world be like when you can download and print a gun? So asked the New York Times a few weeks ago. Apparently, the paper of record has discovered 3D-printing, the ability to “print” objects by spraying layers of...
