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I’m a vegetarian and have been for many years now. Even so, I can respect cuisine of all varieties (even if I don’t eat it)–of the carnivorous persuasion and otherwise. It’s shocking, however, to consider the variety of disgusting processed byproducts our fast-food nation passes off as food–especially to our children. Jamie Oliver demonstrates this [...]

Adora Svitak is 12 years old. She is the youngest speaker at the TED 2010 conference. She, along with most children I meet, is living breathing evidence as to why children should be heard and given a fair and equal voice. Children deserve equal trust and respect. As I listen to Adora in her TED [...]

Lately, I’ve been thinking about the general moral sensibilities of our American public. You often hear of Americans being somewhat repressed when it comes to sexuality and the like–certainly as compared to European mindsets. What strikes me as odd, though, is that while nudity, sex, and matters of our physical human bodies make so many [...]