I was subjected to stand-up comedy Friday night. I say "subjected to" because I love the form, when done (what...
A week ago, at a friend's party, I met a woman who was very enthusiastic about channeling her religious impulses...
I remember the screams when Congressional Republicans (and many Democrats) voted to reform bankruptcy law — in ways that, from...
Can you remember a bad piece of furniture you had in college? What if it followed you around for the...
Interesting Wired article. On one hand, his alleged justification: But to Tobias, pissing off The Man isn't the point, not...
Act I: Inelastic Pot? A friend at work has a masters' degree in economics -- and generally votes left. This...
Don writes... Facebook and social networking. FAD or new way to expand our world(s)? Tim, I don't think I've seen...
The Times: A new study making headlines today suggests teenage girls and boys who watch a lot of steamy television...
James Lileks, on BB guns: Nowadays we’ve done away with these dangerous violent antisocial pseudo-guns, and replaced them with merry-makers...
According to 60 Minutes, you can't directly tell them they've made a mistake. You can't ask them to follow any...
What was absolutely obvious to our grandparents is shocking news to the "enlightened" urbanites over at the Boston Globe: In...
From a comment on DailyKos: an argument that the Santa myth helps make children susceptible to conspiracy theories -- which...
For the left, the defining characteristic of Hitler's national socialism which allowed them to categorize it as non-leftist was its...
And should child-actor parents be held accountable? The New York Times reports today about a "reality show [which] placed 40...
I've been concerned that as or society becomes more secular and less Judeo-Christian we'll become increasingly immoral and politically radical....
From Elaine Monaghan: In a 21st-century take on Cinderella's ugly sisters, American women are going under the knife to squeeze...
Via GetReligion: Still, she says: “It’s a very hard procedure, because the baby is moving, and you are chasing it....
Yesterday ... a 21-year-old woman consulted me, claiming to be depressed. She had swallowed an overdose of her antidepressants and...
"Legalize it and tax it," said a libertarian friend of mine. Well, no thanks, really. I know how that works...
Linda Hirshman, writing in the WaPo: Everybody started hating Linda, apparently, when I published an article in the progressive magazine...
From CBS, stuff conservatives already knew already knew: Was I right that conservatives and liberals are more politically intolerant today...
Steve, who is about my age and just as single, has been put off women: I am having a horrifying...
La Shawn asks: What are some obvious reasons Anglos (America) lead the world? She suggests Christianity. John Ray, of course,...
A realization: Laws without sufficient penalty or enforcement are harmful. Because laws, alone, only influence good people. For example, if...
Megan: I've often thought there would be big money for the firm that figured out how to build an adult...
This isn't a topic I write about much, but sometimes inaccurate or half-true statements just need to be corrected somewhere....
I've always found the idea of sleepwalking a bit creepy. Strap this girl to her own bed: LONDON, England (Reuters)...
I like Bill Clinton's public persona. Sometimes, it's hard not to: when he's not saying or doing things I disagree...
Keith Thompson: [Warren] Farrell is one of the best thinkers around when it comes to men-women issues. He is the...
I'm not a fan of South Park. It's the obscenity, really. But I happened upon the following fragment, excerpted from...
We believe in Marxfreudanddarwin. We believe everything is OK as long as you don't hurt anyone, to the best definition...
I've refrained from writing signficantly about this, previously, for three reasons: I don't feel I've personally done enoughOthers are covering...
The number of people I encounter who are coming uncoupled from reality is alarming me. I have no idea if...
"How could you??" she screamed, crying and quaking with rage. "How could you??!?" She threw the pictures down on the...
He and I used to walk around the Central West End together -- home to many gay bars -- talking....
I've just finish reading (pronounced "wasting time looking at") a rather lengthy (and often tragicly funny), um, web site (if...
Courtesy of Right Wing News: One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the...
We're losing our country. Not to the Democratic Party, obesity, chronic tooth rot, or a general sense of vague malaise....
A CBS
Early Show interview offers some interesting advice on having a "Happy Family"... of one the "secrets" offered is, when you're unhappy... get divorced! Yes, I'm sure that will make families everywhere absolutely ecstatic...
We love to worry, don't we? And we seem to have a knack for worrying about the most useless things while ignoring the real threats...
A week ago I was in Denver, walking the 16th Street mall -- a section of the city which has...
I believe lot of people are confused about what "innocent until proven guilty" means. Judge for yourself whether you think I've lost it when I take a lawyer and rabbi to task on this.
A recent Slate article argues that may not be the case! After reading it, it looks like I've found the...
In which a friend and I observe that "women" seem to be the ultimate tool for attracting... more women. What does this say about women, men, society, and "dating"?
This morning, someone who appears to be a St. Louis grocery store union employee responded to my previous screed on...
A falsified comment blows up in its author's face. Not pretty, not pretty at all. But darned funny...
As mentioned previously, yesterday was "Diversity Day" at a friend's workplace. She's a sharp girl, but not the kind of...
We think of Michael Moore, defender of smalltown America, as the opponent of huge, faceless business which put the "little...
A friend of mine and I were delighted to discover Charity Navigator, which provides some quick stats on about 2,500...
It's all about envy, isn't it? In one striking example, students at Harvard University were asked whether they would prefer...
Boy meets girl. They have sex shortly after meeting. After a month of good sex, they move in together. They have more sex. After nine months, they get engaged, then married...
Our society continues to evolve, according to the immutable laws of science, towards a utopian ideal, right? Roddenbury thought so anyway. So did Marx.
David Frum of the NRO comments about how the legality of gay marriage in Canada could aid the continuing trend of criminalizing traditional Jewish, Christian and Muslim beliefs.
Liberals get a lot of strange ideas. Many of them are self-contradicting, or are contrary to the available evidence, but that doesn't seem to get in the way...
Judith Martin comments: "All men are created equal" is a revolutionary idea that inspired many to immigrate to this country....
Tresa McBee, one of my favorite columnists (from rural Arkasas, at that!) wonders aloud why "feminists" who were concerned about...
From Sexual Assault Statistics: Less than half of those arrested for rape are convicted, 54% of all rape prosecutions end...
There are two types of hypocrisy, one of which I have no praise for...
A brief comment after another woefully long hiatus. (My current endeavour often demands a huge percentage of my time, leaving...
Quoth Rick Santorum: If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual (gay) sex within your home,...
The Atlantic asks: Do Americans receive too much medical care? "Recent studies are beginning to show that excess spending in...
Yourish argues, most persuasively, that Rachael Corrie died of a peculiarly American form of arrogance. While I'm not sure Europe...
I'm no fan of tobacco. Cigarettes killed most of the previous generation on my father's side of the family, many...
I've heard the argument that its absurd, gingoistic, closed-minded, etc. to consider boycotting French products. That it would show low...
I did my part. I joined a record number of Americans who didn't tune into the award cermonies last night....
Joanne Jacobs comments on research by Claude Steele which finds that peoples' tested intelligence can be raised or lowered by...
Today (diurnal-rhythm-wise), I visited a local "Whole Foods Market". The kind of place which specializes in free-range chicken and cruelty-free...
... but who knows, since we don't know the end of the story, perhaps she actually liked it? Armed Liberal...
I try to read broadly, to hear what each political coterie has to say on a given topic. But while...
This hilarious course at UC Berkeley noted by Mean Mr. Mustard (via InstaPundit) reminds me of a similar incident... I...
I have a French friend who would frequently mock Americans for being so "selfish". Mindles H. Dreck and More than...