Age of Consent Laws
I’ve come perilously close to being drawn in to a very lengthy discussion about what the proper age of consent for sex should be. In fact, my opinion on the matter is quite clear and quite immovable — the legal… Continue Reading
Ethics and Morality
This Should Not Be Remarkable
The new District Attorney in Dallas County, Texas, thinks that his job and that of his office is to pursue and advance the interests of justice. This means that from time to time, a prosecution will be dropped or not… Continue Reading
Torturing Tariq
I’ve tried to not get drawn in to lengthy arguments on the Internets. You rarely convince anyone of anything that they didn’t already agree with you on. What I look for, though, are well-argued positions and every once in a… Continue Reading
Legality and Morality
In this story, Wal-Mart is absolutely, positively, in the right from a legal perspective. It’s not even a close case. Whe your health insurer pays your health care costs resulting from an injury, and that injury is proven to have… Continue Reading
If I Were A Prosecutor
The Elliot Spitzer scandal — likely to result in him resigning about an hour (or $4,900, whichever comes first) from the time I write this post — got me thinking. If I were a prosecutor (at any level, be it… Continue Reading
Leadership
A century ago, American soldiers in the Phillipines started doing something they called the “water cure,” which today we would call “waterboarding.” President Teddy Roosevelt responded to news of this going on by sending out a telegram to the commander… Continue Reading
A Good Question: Why Does It Matter?
Some people think that other people choose to be gay. Other people say that people are gay because of their genetics. M. LeBlanc at Bitch Ph.D. asks, why does it matter? After all, the question presupposes that if homosexuality is… Continue Reading
Immoderate Islam
I’ve bashed on Mitt Romney enough for a twenty-four hour period. Now it’s time to bash on Muslims again for foisting off their brand of violent, misogynistic lunacy on the rest of us. Specifically, I refer to the utter and… Continue Reading
Right Wing Fabulism
I don’t usually read the Huffington Post, but today I came across two separate links from separate sources that led back to it, and both were pretty interesting. I mentioned the first one, about a re-brewing political scandal, in the… Continue Reading
Stem Cell Breakthrough
I’m as happy as anyone that scientists have found a way to create human stem cells from adult skin, and that now research on stem cells can progress without having to destroy embryos. But that doesn’t mean that the past… Continue Reading