Of course you have. Former lovers. Old friends from school. Maybe even enemies from the past. But you probably haven’t wondered what happened to that baby who was photographed on the cover of Nirvana’s breakthrough album Nevermind — you know,… Continue Reading
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Barack Obama should not be off limits for humor. Unfortunately, I haven’t heard a whole lot funny about him. The only joke I’ve heard yet at his expense came in the by-now obligatory JibJab cartoon. So it’s a relief to… Continue Reading
Political Animal raises an interesting question for political poll watchers: are poll results skewed because pollsters do not call very many cell phones? This may not be a big issue because cell phones, while pervasive, are still seen by most… Continue Reading
I’m having a very interesting discussion with the Atheist Ethicist about PZ Myers’ call for stolen communion wafers. Rather than re-argue the issues here, I will just commend you to follow the link. The author of the Atheist Ethicist blog… Continue Reading
After an epiphany, Eugene Volokh concludes that Scooby Doo is all about the tort of wrongful interference with prospective economic advantage. I think his commenters offer better deconstructions of the classic cartoon: 1. The Mystery Van is painted with swirling… Continue Reading
If you don’t read xkcd by now, where have you been?
A friend is taking a class in psychology through the local college. It seems that while discussing the subject of IQ tests, the professor told her class (which included my friend) that Bill Clinton had an IQ of 187 and… Continue Reading
The title of this post, or other similar statements, are some of the strangest, yet most pervasive, arguments I have yet heard. Skeptico briefly unpacks the statement into an argument regarding the creation of the universe, and comes up with… Continue Reading
A gay man in Michigan is suing publishers of Bibles because they published versions of the Bible that say homosexuality is a sin. Um. He alleges that the publication of Bibles characterizing homosexuality as sinful give him causes of action… Continue Reading