032: Shrine to Creativity., originally uploaded by mind on fire.

My home office is in our storage closet.

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As the weather turns colder (yes, even here in LA), I’d like to share one of my favorite kinds of tea: chai. Chai comes from many Indian dialects (according to my dictionary, which I checked before just saying “Hindi”) and simply means “tea”. But in English, it describes the way that tea is traditionally enjoyed in India: mixed with spices and milk.

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I wrote the following to Andrew Sullivan, who is the author of my favorite political blog, The Daily Dish. I’m not expecting a response, but I thought it would be worth sharing with you all:

Hi Andrew,

I am writing in response to your reader who argued that atheism rests squarely on faith:

What the atheists are avoiding is that their position, no less than that of theists, rests squarely on faith. There is no way to reach by reason the proposition that there is or is not a god. The only position compatible with reason is that we do not know. That doesn’t satisfy the atheists, though — they must deny the existence of what they cannot know does not exist.

As a somewhat vocal atheist, I hear this argument far too often and find it dismissive and demeaning.

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Campus Progress compiled a collection of links to one hundred studies about climate change and its effects on the world. Here’s a few.

First the good news:

The Northwest Passage is open for the first time in history! Claustrophobic ships can avoid the Panama Canal and long detours around South America!

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