Author: Russell Saunders

Because there are people out there who think this is a good idea: You’ve probably heard of “chickenpox parties,” where parents get unvaccinated kids together (in the home of an infected child) in the hopes they’ll catch the disease. They think making… Continue Reading →

[Editor’s note: As much as I like to keep my Tuesday Questions stupid, I’m having a hard time coming up with deliberately moronic questions to ask.  Thus I am transitioning to simple “Tuesday Questions,” where I ask you what you… Continue Reading →

Like Mr. Kain, I also found Will Wilkinson’s essay on how conservatives, liberals and libertarians view the role of outside forces vs personal agency in a person’s success very interesting.  Wilkinson opens with this quote: Harmon (2010a) built on these… Continue Reading →

This comment of Will’s got me thinking about how the medical profession sometimes comes across.  On the subject of whether women should give up drinking because it may raise breast cancer risk a bit, he says: The thought of taking… Continue Reading →

Suppose you are a woman who enjoys a glass of wine or two with dinner.  This is the amount of alcohol you consume most of the time, and rarely if ever do so excessively.  You don’t drive drunk, you can… Continue Reading →

and yet there I was, I regret I have not had the opportunity to write anything of particular substance today.  Or rather, anything with as much substance as I am ever capable of producing. Thus, all I have is one… Continue Reading →