The Tree Museum Kathleen Kaufman Recommendation: don’t read I have a fantasy about how humanity will be perfected when I am put in charge. Not installed bureaucratically, you understand, but as one […]
The more educated there are, the less education there is: Part I
While surveying my number two son’s final exam in meteorology (a class in which the answers are given out beforehand—in multiple choice format, of course), I recalled the old argument on why […]
Hey, Hollywood, I’ll do it for free
The Problem This relevant scene appears in an uncountable number of movies. What happens when you plunge head first through a glass window? Anybody? That’s right. You die. It’s you that starts […]
Disparity is inevitable: a counter argument to filing discrimination lawsuits
Introduction Know a lawyer who is involved in a discrimination lawsuit? Particularly one in which the plaintiff alleges discrimination because actual disparities are found in company hiring practices? Were you aware that, […]
Pink horror
Why do people occasionally enjoy having the bejesus scared out of themselves by watching horror movies? Maybe it’s a way to relieve stress or to recall vague, primal memories of being hunted. […]
Thou shalt not be more able
The funniest thing I have read in a long time comes from Robert Shibley, a member of “FIRE”, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (more details). The Virginia Tech University—an institution […]
Gay marriage and tradition: a continuation
In Big Jake , John Wayne and Bruce Cabot ready themselves for the final battle against the bad guys. Wayne: Well, Sam, they say the elk in Montana are as big as […]
A poor argument for gay marriage
James Randi, and the rest of the psi-cops, have increasingly strayed from their original—and self-appointed—role of policing pseudoscience and the paranormal, and are instead intent on doing battle with any and all […]
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