Can you spend three trillion dollars better than George W. Bush?
This site thinks so. If you hunt through the categories, you'll see many ideas better than occupying Iraq while incurring tens of thousands of U.S. troop casualties.
If I could interview the Pope…
...this would be one of my questions: if, as you claim, God expects unmarried people to practice sexual abstinence, and expects teenagers to benefit from abstinence-only sex "education," then why can't your own ordained Catholic priests manage to practice it? Isn't your demand for abstinence a bit like declaring that…
What you can do with a philosophy degree.
Philosophy majors are not getting rich, but they're able to buy enough food to allow them to sit around and ponder things. Truth be told, philosophy majors are at the bottom of the list in starting salaries. As someone who majored in philosophy, I found these statistics to be of interest. In…
A College Class Lists the Races
I've stewed on this one for a while. I couldn't decide whether it made for an interesting post or a snide, judgmental complaint. I think it will ultimately fall somewhere in between. Last fall, I took an introductory Anthropology course at my large public university of choice. The class fulfilled…
If you have a driver’s license, you might be a terrorist
Most of you probably already know that more than 35,000 people are killed in the U.S. *every year* (more than ten times the number killed in the 9/11 terrorist attack) by drivers who are impaired by alcohol. But you might not know that, since the 9/11 attack, drivers who run…