Month: June 2015

Why I Gave Up on Finding a Political Solution to Our Obvious Political Problems

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In our day, most everyone recognizes our nation has huge problems: inflation, unemployment, poverty, hunger, homelessness, racial tension, fatherlessness, violence, corruption, terrorism, police brutality, government spying, debt, illegal immigration, rising cost of living, and massive loss of rights, just to name a few. Many of these politically important problems are rooted in culture. We have […]

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Vanity Fair Has Never Been Truer to Its Name

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Vanity Fair, like Jezebel, is one of those various publications that embraces, and tries to transappropriate (emphasis on the trans in this case), a negative (usually Christian) term. We all remember Jezebel, the hateful vicious idolatrous wife of Ahab, but perhaps the allusive source for Vanity Fair has become obscure to modern audiences. It’s from […]

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The New GOP: Brinkmanship, Gamesmanship, Plain Politics, or Real Convictions?

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Sometimes it’s hard to tell the difference between political games and political convictions. Recently, Rand Paul almost single-handedly derailed the newest iteration of the Patriot Act. Some in the GOP believe his actions were nothing more than a political stunt to galvanize his Libertarian base. For instance, Mike Lee of Utah, who is not running […]

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New Thync Device Gets You Excited or Puts You to Sleep on Command

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A new wearable device called Thync will allow users to zap their brains into whatever general state the user desires, excitement or drowsiness: Thync costs $299 and has just been released to the public. It provides “calm or energy on demand”, the company says, by using “neurosignalling” to activate nerves and change people’s state of […]

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Transabled People Upsetting the Transgender Bandwagon

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You might have to read this twice. A transabled person is a perfectly healthy person who for whatever reason doesn’t feel at home in his or her healthy body and believes a physical disability would be more in keeping with the “reality” in their minds: [Researcher Alexandre Baril] suggests [transablism] is just another form of […]

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Germany is Killing Itself with “Satisfying” Baby-Free Sex

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Germany has a serious population problem. This year marks its lowest production of babies ever, and previous years were already particularly infertile. Pundits warn that Germany will soon start to reap the bitter consequences of its demographic suicide. But at least Germans are having “satisfying” sexual experiences: Germany is the 11th most sexually satisfied country […]

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Silk Road Creator Ross Ulbricht Sentenced to Life in Prison Without Parole

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Ross Ulbricht created the most famous encrypted marketplace on the Dark Web, called the Silk Road. Through it, anonymous users could purchase nearly any illegal thing, but the site became famous for drugs. Sellers were rated (by discreteness of packaging, price, and quality), and it cost money (in Bitcoin of course) to be added to […]

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Undercover Tests Reveal Huge Gaps in TSA Security

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According to the results of recent undercover tests, TSA airport security measures are hugely ineffective: An internal investigation of the Transportation Security Administration revealed security failures at dozens of the nation’s busiest airports, where undercover investigators were able to smuggle mock explosives or banned weapons through checkpoints in 95 percent of trials, ABC News has learned. The […]

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