Recent light reading

[bunrab]

Between rehearsals and keeping up with those pesky bunny rabbits, it seems like there's not much time for reading. So what I've read recently is a couple of murder mystery short-story collections and another one of the Bill Crider mysteries, and I'm slowly working my way through 101 People Who Are Really Screwing America (And Bernard Goldberg is Only #73) by Jack Huberman.
Here's part of what Huberman has to say about #75, Kansas State Board of Education:

...the sense of moral order that religious beliefs help some people maintain and the social order they supposedly help preserve (if you ignore the incessant religious violence throught history) do not make those beliefs true As George Bernard Shaw said: "The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." If scientific discoveries have made life morally, philosophically, and emotionally harder, too bad. (It is ironic how much of the current religious revival is a child of 1960s youth culture: both disdain the painstaking labors it takes to really learn something -- to add a single fact to the store of human knowledge -- and instead seek a cheap high and instant truth in a pill or a prayer. I'd like to see a commercial: "This is your child's brain on the opium of the people.")