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Killing the Buddha editor Jeffrey Sharlet ends the second section of his Harper’s article recounting his immersion experience in the Family with this whopper: The brothers of Ivanwald are the Family’s next generation, its high priests in training. I had been recommended for membership by a banker acquaintance, a recent Ivanwald alumnus, who had mistake […]
Popular scientist Richard Dawkins proposes we start using the word “brights” to refer to atheists, agnostics, freethinkers, and humanists. Mostly they are naturalists as opposed to supernaturalists. (With emphasis especially on “as opposed to.”) Dawkins and his fellow “brights” hope to use the word in the same way that the homosexual community used “gay” as […]
I am proud proud proud of my heritage. But who can blame me?
JERUSALEM—After being away for nearly two millennia, Jesus Christ triumphantly returned Monday to pick up some of His old belongings. “I realize this isn’t exactly how the world’s Christians were imagining it, but I left a really comfortable pair of sandals in Galilee, and I wanted them back,” said Christ, who died for our sins. […]
In an effort to make MyIrony more accessible, I’ve switched the site over to an “em”-based style sheet from a pica- and point-based style sheet. For those of you who don’t speak CSS (and I don’t encourage you to do so), that means that when you shift the text size in your browser (in IE, […]