Inside (outside) football
The insider-outsider problem in the study of religion entails that an insider in a religious tradition has an advantage of insight, while an outsider has… Read More »Inside (outside) football
The insider-outsider problem in the study of religion entails that an insider in a religious tradition has an advantage of insight, while an outsider has… Read More »Inside (outside) football
At work the other day, we got into a discussion about names. Weird family names, bizarre nicknames, the difference (if any) between your given name… Read More »Naming of names
The manhunt for the terrorists continues. At least three mosques in various French cities have been attacked. News sources deliberate whether to repost the covers… Read More »Watching Charlie
This Slate article has a collection of photos of “bum-free” additions to buildings and structures in public areas intended for the same purpose as the… Read More »The anti-homeless spikes
…sorta: I was talking to a lot of press this week – I mean a LOT of press, and most of it hostile. When I… Read More »Silverman clarifies
Apparently part of the issue with David Silverman’s statements is that people think he brought up secular arguments against abortion out of nowhere. Trust me,… Read More »Addendum — parsing libertarian-speak on abortion
Cultural relativism: a moral standard that which maintains that cultural norms are good simply because they are cultural norms, and a person cannot judge the… Read More »Repost: cultural relativism
People sometimes find my blog by searching for some variation on “Is it okay to be rude to a cop?” It leads them to the… Read More »Update on “contempt of cop” cases
I have an idea for a business. It’s a delivery service. It delivers to hospital patients. Not flowers. Not Mylar balloons. Not stuffed animals. Not baskets of… Read More »Business model
This post’s title (the first part, anyway) is something my mother often said to me when I was a kid and I complained to her… Read More »Consider the source– a PSA