The great thing about America is that anyone can step up and run for high office. This is technically true, at least. The horrible thing about America is that most sane people wouldn’t dare run for any high office. I’ve been watching a bit of the ongoing campaign for President. I’ve…
Are you sure you want to be "free"? Freedom is such a strange concept. I've never understood it in the context of personal decision-making. Americans claim to love "freedom," but how much freedom can you stand? Freedom implies occurrences that are unhinged from naturalistic laws. Freedom implies a mechanism that…
"What an odd question?" was my first thought when I read this column. Blogging, as a profession, has grown from geeky obscurity into a direct challenge to the journalism industry, even with bloggers' reputation for being unruly, unvetted, grammatically and syntactically insufficient, and above all, a disorganized mess. He discusses…
Cartoons aren't always funny. Sometimes they make serious points more efficiently than a big page of prose. There's no better example than these cartoons from Cagle. This set is entitled "Latin America's View on Immigration."
Here's a cute video by "AngryLittleGirl" called "Gullible is not in the Dictionary" [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OruQy-X32O0[/youtube] It makes the simple point that one should check the source when someone presents a "fact" such as "95% of Americans are scientifically illiterate" or "Jesus rose from the dead". That reminds me of "Passion of…