Licking My Elbow

It is extremely rare to hear someone refer to the entire text of the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Instead, so entire sentence...

A recent article in the New Yorker —" The Fantasy of the Deathbed Conversion "—refuting the bogus claim that Christopher Hitchens...

When it comes to people acting unethically, I think the poor and the rich have something in common. People with no money often have to act ...

I'm weary of the "never forget" sentiment we so often express after a tragedy because I don't think it's usually mean...

One of the types of stories that get regularly refuted by the people at Snopes and other organizations are ones based on the hero motif. On...

Story: Tow truck driver refuses to tow motorist over Bernie bumper sticker Within this story is the ridiculous but accepted idea that it ...

Gun advocates hang their hat on the claim that we're all in danger pretty much all the time from pretty much anyone, and people should ...

Story: Who's behind the new LGBT bathroom laws? In this article it is explained that the new "bathroom laws" and other ...

The number of corporate mergers and acquisitions has been a normal and  growing part of our world for quite some time, even though there ...

Story: NASA visits Bill Nye’s Facebook page and gives climate change denier a righteous smack down  (similar story here ) I find it di...

I have posted in the past about how I think we incorporate into our "self" not only our bodies but they things we think. Becau...

A recent story that touched on motivations for voting one way or another has reminded me that elections can be seen through the lens of th...

Story: After the Fact: In the history of truth, a new chapter begins For a while now I have reached the opinion that humans are too flawe...

Taken together, the refusal to let a SCOTUS nominee come to a vote in the U.S. Senate, the various voter suppression laws that continue to ...

The following is from a recent job announcement for a reporter for a Gannett newspaper: We're a Gannett newsroom, which means we...

Story: Most Popular Theories of Consciousness Are Worse Than Wrong This is one of very few mainstream articles that talks about this in a...

Story: Is Social Science Politically Biased? Michael Shermer has just outed himself as a conservative ideolog. In a recent essay posted ...

Story: Austin radio station flooded with reports of voting machines switching votes (Similar electronic voting fraud stories here , here ,...

It has long been a part of conservative dogma that laws should come from lawmakers "closest to the people," meaning local govern...

The death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has resulted in some people looking to praise him even though they disagreed with him gen...