A report from the CSM about Governor Brown’s budget proposal is almost unremittingly positive, particularly given its rather dismal subject matter. It makes me distrust the objectivity of the reporter. The devil is in the details, but the big picture… Continue Reading
Right around the holidays, American Atheists, Inc. used some of its money to rent space on a billboard near the entrance to the Lincoln Tunnel connecting Weehawken, New Jersey to Manhattan. They put up this image for one month: A… Continue Reading
This sounds like good news from the Federal Reserve: the government will realize $31 billion of money that had not previously been expected this year. While the path to governmental solvency necessarily goes through the difficult territory of entitlement cuts,… Continue Reading
If you’re going to criticize the harsh, escalating, polarizing, and purportedly violent partisan rhetoric of the Evil Other Party, then you have a duty to not engage in harsh, escalating, polarizing, or reasonably-perceived-as-violent partisan rhetoric yourself. Policy disagreements are just… Continue Reading
Today’s shooting of a U.S. Representative and a U.S. District Court Judge in Tuscon, Arizona, is obviously terrible news. The Congresswoman in question had her office vandalized after her vote in favor of healthcare reform* but it’s not really clear… Continue Reading
Rudy! Giuliani is going to run for President again? Recall that in 2005, Giuliani began preparations after a “Draft Rudy” movement formed (and of course he had a hand in that, let’s not be sly about that). He declared in… Continue Reading
Let’s play a game, albeit a morbid one. I’ve found a crime from a real case, and I’ve created a hypothetical circumstance. Consider two crimes, both setting in motion chains of events which result in the death of a human… Continue Reading
In Tennessee, it’s not all bigots trying to keep Muslims out of their towns with bizarrely abusive lawsuits. In Cordova, Tennessee (that’s not far from Memphis), a Christian church is allowing a startup Muslim community to use its facilities for… Continue Reading
This morning will be the new House of Representative’s much-ballyhooed ceremonial reading of the Constitution. While some are trying to attack this new ritual as a waste of $1.1 million, I tend to agree with the idea that the money… Continue Reading
The data in the study suggesting that the MMR vaccine causes autism was knowingly falsified. It was based on intentionally-selected, “chiseled” data. It was a lie. It was a lie with consequences: …measles has surged since Wakefield’s paper was published… Continue Reading