WebMD, the world’s second-most-popular website for health advice, has very quietly secured a government contract in which it agrees to promote Obamacare and educate doctors about it. Representatives of the website have argued that this does not constitute a conflict of interest, since WebMD would be allowed autonomy to present its own take on medical […]
Continue reading →Daniel Defense sells guns. They had this crazy idea that Super Bowl viewers might be members of the demographic that buys guns. So they looked up the Super Bowl’s stated guidelines for advertisements, and they made a commercial they thought fit the guidelines. Nope. The Super Bowl rejected the ad, and pretty unequivocally. The ad, […]
Continue reading →An article in the Los Angeles Times points out a problem that few proponents of green energy have considered: the existing power grid was not designed to deal with the fluctuations and unpredictability of green energy power sources. As it is, the power grid is an extraordinarily complex and fragile system. An array of highly-trained […]
Continue reading →In the past few decades, there has been an increasing number of paleontological discoveries that challenge the evolutionary paradigm. But we haven’t heard about them. In fact, years of excuses and denials is starting to expose the ideological and metaphysical prejudice of the so-called empiricists who continue to cheer for the reigning dogma of macro-evolution […]
Continue reading →I’ve got a little joke for you: If “pro-” is the opposite of “con-,” what is the opposite of “progress”? Anyway… if only every Congress were as unproductive as the 113th Congress has been. It has been so monumentally torpid that it is being dubbed “the Do-Nothing Congress.” The Washington Post reports: According to congressional records, […]
Continue reading →For hundreds of years, English grammar has broadly endorsed the concept of male headship by dictating that the “gender neutral” singular subjective pronoun is “he.” Many people consider this to be sexist. But an inclusive “he/she” is coming under increasing attack as well. “Gender queer,” “gender fluid,” and “trans-gender” “humans” reject the bi-gender demaracation as […]
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