How much does it cost merchants to accept credit cards?
How much does it cost merchants to accept credit cards? The Consumerist has the answers!
Scientific American: Ten places already affected by climate change
Scientific American has published a list of ten places that have already significantly experienced climate change. When the insurance companies weigh in (see the second entry on the U.S. Gulf Coast), you can be sure that we're dealing with money (based on dispassionate probabilities), not ideology. Many major casualties on…
Don’t Scratch That Itch.
I am sitting cross legged on a pillow on the floor, which I try to do daily these days, when my cheek begins to itch. A 20 minute daily sitting meditation has, over the past year, become more routine for me. I sit focused on my breath. I am my…
I saw a nipple.
While walking to the Missouri State Court of Appeals today, I thought I saw a nipple.
Then I got closer . . . I DID! I DID see a nipple!There it was, prominently displayed in a building housing a prestigious courthouse, a court run by the government of the "Show Me" state of Missouri!!
Now, that’s odd … A prominent agency of my federal government (the FCC) is spending huge sums of money trying to punish a TV network for displaying a part of a nipple of Janet Jackson. My state government is simultaneously and shamelessly displaying that same forbidden body part.
Science and Religion: Differences?
We have all been through one cycle after another of debate with someone who insists that science is a religion. This is a tiresome argument on one level because it is one with all sorts of things that fall under the category of "I know it when I see it." …