Once you understand the basic urges that motivate people, the ones that are the same worldwide regardless of racial group or culture, it doesn’t take much additional effort to understand and even appreciate the tenets of practically every religion. No matter how different a religion may be from what you believe, they’re all good at …
As a long-time fan of Spider-Man stories, I was somewhat disturbed at the changes that were made to the canonical Spider-Man for the recent movies. The radioactive spider was out, replaced by a genetically-spliced one — more hip and new-millennium, you know. He now generated webbing from within his arms, instead of using a fast-setting …
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There was a rather nationalist (if not racist) joke making the rounds a while back, about an Arab who visits the US and sees an episode of the original Star Trek series. He notes to his American hosts that many different races and nationalities are represented: Russian, Japanese, African, Scottish, even races completely alien to …