When it comes to philosophy (in this case political philosophy,) how you state your argument is arguably just as important as the context of and point you are trying to make. Chuck posted something interesting about the dialectal process being used in the abortion debate. Egalitarianism has slithered its way into our pocketbooks once again; [...]

Anthropologist: Modern Man is Inferior to Ancestors “If you’re reading this then you — or the male you have bought it for — are the worst man in history,” McAllister writes in the opening sentence of the prologue. “No ifs, no buts — the worst man, period. … As a class we are in fact [...]

Bright Sided: Who would be churlish or disaffected enough to challenge these happy features of the American personality? Take the business of positive “affect,” which refers to the mood we display to others through our smiles, our greetings, our professions of confidence and optimism. Scientists have found that the mere act of smiling can generate [...]

I’m getting ready for a heavy-duty weekend of studying. The next several days worth of posts have been scheduled (actually, most of them are anyway as I don’t have time to do it every day of the week). The tidbits: Cooking with semen. Humanity at its finest. 25 hilariously defaced bills. I especially like the [...]

Ecosalon has a list of the top 20 things we throw away, but shouldn’t. I won’t bore you with the details, but anyone who is as poor as I am might look at this list and say, “seriously?” I’ll admit to using paper-towels because my roomie got a metric ass-ton of them for free from [...]

Economics is imperfect? Say it ain’t so: As I see it, the economics profession went astray because economists, as a group, mistook beauty, clad in impressive-looking mathematics, for truth. Until the Great Depression, most economists clung to a vision of capitalism as a perfect or nearly perfect system. That vision wasn’t sustainable in the face [...]

Man bound over for trial in hammer attacks Bryson and King knew each other at school and had spent time the previous day playing “Dungeons and Dragons” with Shokrian, who was acting cocky during the game, according to Detective Nathan Williams. Shokrian was directing the game as Dungeon Master, and King didn’t like what he [...]

August is Vaccine Awareness Month: The recent H1N1 pandemic and efforts to stem the tide of infection through vaccination is a great opportunity to teach the public about the importance and potential of vaccines. Instead I am seeing a wave of anti-vaccine misinformation. Some of it, I think (I can’t really know) is just lazy [...]

Smiley Face Atheists: Survey Finds Non-Believers to Be Upbeat Now, however, comes word that could give the godless reason to smile — if they aren’t already: A new study of some 5,800 non-believers reports that contrary to popular conceptions of atheists as crabby misanthropes, they in fact tend to be as happy as their believing [...]

I’ve been perplexed about Satchel Guy for a while. I see him or one of his clones out at some of the chic little cafes around downtown regularly. One day, while drinking an ice cold PBR at one of said establishments and witnessing Satchel Guy waltz up to the bar and order himself a White [...]