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A while ago I gave up giving up. Seemed to be pointless to get upset by morons running for the presidency and giving up on the Republican vo...

Hanne Blank has written a book on the history of “straight” and found that the heterosexual-homosexual dichotomy is fairly recent. Like mid ...

Santorum: “It’s not about contraception – it’s about government control of your lives.” This means that as far as Santorum is concerned, you...

Finally someone articulates the feelings many Americans have. Where has the Dream gone? George Carlin (1), notably a iconoclast of biblical ...

In a sleazy move that failed, but only just, the Florida legislature once again proved it is Pro 1% and Anti 99%. What was this move, you as...

American University law professor Ira Robbins (made) the case that the digitus impudicus (as it was known back in ancient Rome), just isn...

. . . Monday night, Romney rolled out some new material: the rights given to people by God. "I am just distressed as I watch, as I wat...

Watching the sunrise this morning was not very exciting. Clouds produced a diffuse gray kind of light, not the OMG colors and shapes we ofte...

Time is running out (or maybe has already) for the decision makers to decide to come down on the side of the environment and save the world ...

Thanks to an NPR (1) discussion this weekend I started to brood over the idea of being open-minded. When you are on a jury, you shouldn’t be...