Thursday, October 9th, 2014
Mail arrives, telling me that by going to Mexico I have sold out, fled, abandoned the United States. I’m a coward, some of my correspondents say, and a traitor. Anyway, they’re upset, which is irrational. They think that just because I went to Mexico, I left the US. They don’t understand. I didn’t leave the
Wednesday, October 8th, 2014
Apple and Google recently announced that they are encrypting the data on their devices so that the government will not have access to it. Your privacy, in other words, is being protected by corporations. A curious situation...
Wednesday, October 8th, 2014
A common misconception about weight loss is “eat less, lose faster”. This belief might lead you to make drastic (and potentially dangerous) changes in your diet…changes that can actually backfire and sabotage your weight loss efforts. To...
Tuesday, October 7th, 2014
Several decades ago, I was born. Purely by chance, I was a boy, and a little less by chance, I was white. Unbeknownst to me, being born a white male would privilege me to a wonderful life...
Monday, October 6th, 2014
One of the great goals of education is to initiate the young into the conversation of their ancestors. Modern American education no longer does this. In fact our schooling widens the gulf between our ancestors and ourselves,...
Thursday, October 2nd, 2014
A Redditt user who identified herself as transgender posted these observations about life as both genders. You can call me D. I’m a 22, almost 23 year old transgender male living in the US. I lived the...
Wednesday, October 1st, 2014
Last week, Australian authorities thwarted a plan by Islamic radicals to grab random people off the street and then behead them on videotape. Australia’s attorney general said that the raid, involving more than 800 police officers, and...
Wednesday, October 1st, 2014
If there is one thing that both liberal and conservative politicians agree on it is this: the state should have more control. Oh, I know that many conservatives talk a big game when it comes to personal...
Tuesday, September 30th, 2014
In a recent debate to decide the fate of the male species in the 21st century, the New York Times’ Maureen Dowd wrote: “So now that women don’t need men to reproduce and refinance, the question is,...
Monday, September 29th, 2014
The old veteran looked down at the boy and smiled. A child is an extremely rare thing in a veteran’s hospital. There is no Pediatrics department, or an OB/GYN. The big departments are Urology, Orthopedics and Mental...
Monday, September 29th, 2014
I don’t know what it is with my generation in America these days but I find myself acting like a broken record. Reminding folks of the same things over and over again. I decided to make it...
Sunday, September 28th, 2014
What if psychiatric drugs like Prozac and Zoloft were no more effective than a lump of sugar? What if there were natural ways to combat depression that were completely free? Dr. Irving Kirsch analyzed 38 separate clinical...
Saturday, September 27th, 2014
If you ever want to know the purpose of a new piece of legislation, just listen to what politicians say and then assume the opposite is true. Case in point: The Dodd-Frank Bill. Intended to “regulate” the...
Friday, September 26th, 2014
After being fired from his job at a food plant, Alton Nolan decided it was a good idea to show his displeasure by cutting a woman’s head off. Alton Nolan was a lunatic. The only thing that...
Friday, September 26th, 2014
A little while ago, I was invited to participate in a Class Action lawsuit for 13 million dollars. If successful, my share of this loot would only be a small fraction, perhaps a thousand dollars at most....