Sad Sight

Walking through my university campus today I came upon a very sad sight. Two young students with all to explore and investigate before them  manning a stall giving out religious literature! Why? Or alternatively why go to university? If you buy in to some supernaturally infused world view clearly a university has little to offer you. Poor kids.
Point was amplified in the library where I spotted a book entitled Catholic Bioethics. How can complex practical issues be helped by a uniquely sectarian supernatural world view?

A Sad State

The USA are agonizing over healthcare. Most states already have reasonably affordable provision. USA has about 300 million citizens represented nationally by several hundred congressmen and women and 100 senators. These folks it seems might come to a decision to join the rest of the world in recognizing effective healthcare as a citizen' natural right - or not as they might choose. But not so. Having thought that they had made a decision the matter is now referred to a tiny group of party politically partisan people who will second guess the decision of the people in the light of an ancient text written by and for a small group of plutocrats over 200 years ago. How sad is that?