Do we have free will? We certainly make mistakes (the Master of the Key made that clear when he burst into Whitley’s hotel room in Toronto in 1998 and told him about climate change (The NEW, revised edition of The Key, with a foreword that talks about how many of his statements later turned out to be true, will be in bookstores May 12).read more

When I hear the right wing attacks on Planned Parenthood–which are really attacks on abortion–I remember something I used to say to the conservative ladies I knew in Texas: You can’t have it both ways. Actually, the whole controversy should be moot because Federal tax dollars are not allowed to pay for abortions, no matter who facilitates them–and I think this is the right thing to do, when it comes to such a controversial topic. But here’s what I used to say to the ladies: You can’t be against both the problem (in this case, abortion) and the solution–which is contraception and sex education.
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