Two great articles on partisanship and food stamps

Two great new opinion pieces from the NYT:

1. http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/21/american-bile/
2. http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/19/red-state-pain/

"Origins of Religious Disbelief"

This is a few months old, but I just came across it.

"The origins of religious disbelief "
Ara Norenzayan and Will M. Gervais
Trends in Cognitive Sciences January 2013, Vol. 17, No. 1
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2012.11.006

Check out a podcast by Gervais, a University of Kentucky prof, on the origins of religious disbelief here, and read the review paper on the subject here.

Disgust with our political system

Sometimes I excoriate conservatives for their misinformation, confusion and poor moral values. But I will turn the same rigor towards tearing apart Obama for his failure to "close the revolving door" between lobbying and Congressional service.

I can't say it better than Frank Rich did: