Happy not to be on that team
I can’t help wondering if, after having established his character Dilbert as the office Everyman, Scott Adams has somehow welded...
It’s my Grand Old Party and I’ll lie if I want to (even if it leads to terrorism)
The claim that abortion is baby-murder hasn’t worked. More Americans are now pro-choice than pro-life. Most Americans also support the...
In the virtue stakes, reverence leaves empathy at the starting line
In France, individual citizens run a satirical magazine, the Charlie Hebdo, which publishes cartoons making fun of Muhammad among countless...
The rich and the poor alike are forbidden to stand on dogs
On New Year’s Day, a group of photos showed up in my Facebook news feed. It turned out to be...
Things you might not want to say about hot car deaths
I live in Wichita, Kansas. Kansas is a place of extreme temperatures– it can get bitterly cold in the winter,...
Sex without fear
“Consequence” is one of those words that has taken on a connotation of the negative, even though the denotation does...
Rambling diatribe about atheism, politics, and the word “secular”
I don’t know American Atheists president David Silverman, but he strikes me as kind of a brash guy. The kind...
Barney Frank, atheism, and representation
Source So Barney Frank came out last night– again. This time as a “pot-smoking atheist” on Real Time With Bill...
A-baby-ist.
Niall Ferguson So, just as I’m finishing reading comedian Jen Kirkman’s book I Can Barely Take Care of Myself: Tales...
How to be a moralizing blowhard
Have you always aspired to be a moralizing blowhard, but just can’t seem to get your message down pat? Are...