In yet another instance of what seems like an unending line of foreign policy debacles, the United States has managed to estrange one of its stronger European allies—Germany. After decades of amicable relations, the US finally soured relations with Germany completely when news surfaced that US intelligence agents had paid off a member of German […]
Continue reading →The dominoes of heteronormativity are falling. Many of my leftist friends (yes, I have a few) accused me of the slippery slope fallacy when I told them the normalization of homosexuality would lead to the eventual acceptance of other “formerly” aberrant sexual practices like pedophilia, bestiality, and incest. Well, sometimes what looks like a slippery […]
Continue reading →A new Australian study claims in its conclusion that, according to the scientific evidence collected in the study, children of same-sex couples are actually better off to a small degree than children of heterosexual couples. Apparently, when it comes to social functioning and physical well-being, the children of homosexual couples fare about six percent better […]
Continue reading →According to a recent report by Bank of America, the United States has surpassed Saudi Arabia as the world’s biggest producer of oil: “The U.S. increase in supply is a very meaningful chunk of oil,” Francisco Blanch, the bank’s head of commodities research, said by phone from New York. “The shale boom is playing a key role […]
Continue reading →It’s Friday, July 4, 2014, and Americans everywhere are firing up their grills and pulling out their stockpiles of technicolor ordnance to celebrate Independence Day. For most, eating too much meat and watching fireworks with the kids is about as far as this celebration will go. And most will never really consider what we are […]
Continue reading →The US Patent Office recently released the piddling evidence of public disgruntlement over the “offensive” nature of the Washington football team’s preferred label—Redskins. And when I say piddling, what I really mean is non-existent. In fact, before the US Patent Office stripped the Washington Redskins of its trademarks, no one had written to them about […]
Continue reading →With state-level gay marriage bans toppling like congregants at a Pentecostal revival, it makes sense that more and more corporations would be courting the LGBT community. The most recent corporation to cash in is Burger King, which played it safe with a local item—called the Proud Whopper—available at only one store on the route of San […]
Continue reading →From the way most critics are talking about it, the Supreme Court ruling in favor of Hobby Lobby was a chauvinist attack on female reproductive rights by five old white Catholic men. I don’t think the Hobby Lobby ruling had much at all to do with women’s rights, however. The main questions of the Hobby […]
Continue reading →If it weren’t already obvious to you, I’ll let you in on a secret: scientific hypotheses regularly affect the selection and organization (and therefore the content) of what passes for scientific data. In other words, scientists regularly confirm with the “evidence” only what they already believe to be true and are aiming to “prove.” This is […]
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