Archive for the 'Newspaper' Category

How Good People Turn Evil

March 1, 2008

Psychologist Philip Zimbardo is interviewed in a great piece from Wired Magazine about how easy it is for good people to do evil things and what we need to do to try to stop that.
People are always personally accountable for their behavior. If they kill, they are accountable. However, what I’m saying is that [...]

Michael Shermer Article

February 19, 2008

In a strong and provocative L. A. Times op-ed on Anonymous, Michael Shermer of the Skeptic’s Society pulls no punches.
Imagine reading this press release:
Hello, Jews. We are anonymous. Over the years, we have been watching you. Your campaigns of misinformation; suppression of dissent; your litigious nature, all of these things have caught our eye. … [...]

Death of Shawn Lonsdale

February 19, 2008

The St. Petersburg Times reports today on the apparent suicide of Scientology critic Shawn Lonsdale.
It was a lonely end for a man who emerged out of nowhere in 2006 as a thorn in the side of the Church of Scientology.
For a few months in mid to late 2006, Lonsdale stood alone in downtown Clearwater beside [...]

Theater Tech

September 10, 2007

There’s a good article in Britain’s Telegraph about Milton Katselas and his Beverly Hills Playhouse, one of the most respected acting classes in Los Angeles.
Students have left Katselas’s school, the Beverly Hills Playhouse, because of the unspoken pressure they felt to join the Church of Scientology, the [...]