Can it really be this simple? . . . what’s going on in the USA? Alas, the US economy is ...
Yesterday morning, while driving to work, Malvina Reynold's song "Little Boxes" popped int...
You gotta love Woody Allen. Most atheists claim, and some vehemently, that finding meaning...
All atheists aren't Darwinists, but nearly all Darwinists are atheists. Why? Ben Stein'...
The Penn State University football scandal has been ugly in a variety of ways, but not ...
Insanity isn't just inheritable. Judging from what's happening with America's energy polic...
It's true: for a con game to work, it does take two — the sharper and a willing gull —...
Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. (Shakespeare, Sonnet 116, ll. ...
A novelty in publishing which has come in with the e-book, almost unremarked, is the e-st...
Christmas tree sellers who sell more than 500 trees annually must pay it to the Federal Go...
We live in an age when the epistemological certainty of science is supposedly an unquestio...
The U.S. cinema box office continues its long decline. New release Tower Heist finished be...
Assuming it gets made: The visuals and sound design in Blade Runner are simply arresting. ...
The only unnatural sex act is that which you cannot perform. — Attributed to Alfred Kins...
Like South Africa, America is destined to degenerate into a dominant-party state. — Ilan...
“If it weren’t for gays, honey, there wouldn’t be a Hollywood.” — Attributed to ...
In an interesting analytical essay in Newsweek based on the ideas in his book Civilizati...
First of all, the disclaimer: Although I didn't get the book free, I should probably note...
We see no reason to mitigate the instability of free markets. That’s what makes them so ...
Subsidies for the solar panel and windmill industry have already had a lasting aesthetic e...
Seven billion people. So what? The environmentalist worldview is haunted by the terrifying...
Sometimes the very learned and clever can be brilliantly foolish, especially when seized b...
If the United States had a "swear jar," it would be full to bursting right now. Indicatin...
Some of you may know there is a presidential election campaign going on right now, and the...
Who's the highest-grossing movie actor of all time? It's a bit of a surprise: Samuel L. J...
According to John V. Denson, Honest Abe and FDR behaved much like each other in the interv...
I felt what Maggie had tried to describe to me on more than one occasion when we were mar...
Full disclosure: I'm not a horseman. I've ridden some, and generally managed not to fall o...
U.S. moviegoers avoided theaters over the weekend, except those showing new release Para...
The late Apple CEO Steve Jobs evidently supported Barack Obama's rise to the presidency ...
Writing in National Review Online, political analyst Ryan Streeter posits that the natio...
The upcoming theatrical film The Raven, evidently based verrrrrrrrry loosely on the storie...
