• Big business in body parts—An eye-opening op-ed piece by Kerry Howley in the Los Angeles Times that describes how some companies are “making a fortune from dead Americans” (who have donated their bodies) and questions why “we can’t sell ourselves, but others can.”

• Two Generals Provide A Contrast in Accountability—A nice column by Dana Milbank of the Washington Post that portrays the difference between two Army commanders who have been taking considerable heat over the neglectful treatment and living conditions endured by troops recovering at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

• Darwin’s God—A fascinating article by Robin Marantz Henig in this past Sunday’s New York Times Magazine that explores, in considerable depth, the scientific “search for an evolutionary explanation for why belief in God exists — not whether God exists, which is a matter for philosophers and theologians, but why the belief does.”

• Mandating America to Treatment – A Counselor’s Perspective—An interesting piece by Shirin Shokouhi, an Iranian-American psychotherapist, from the Common Dreams News Center that equates this country’s “perpetual wars and honeymoons with various peoples of the world” with the dynamics seen in “cases of domestic violence.”