To begin, I want to say that I’m glad we’ve managed to create a community, and I’m proud of the work many of us do…
The Pun Also Rises: How the Humble Pun Revolutionized Language, Changed History, and Made Wordplay More Than Some Antics by John Pollack Gotham Books, 211…
It’s hard for people who feel that “something must be done.” They struggle with an urge to make a difference however they can; they become…
I’m sure someone else has said this, but it doesn’t appear to have caught on in human evolutionary speculation, so I’ll repeat it here: We…
Last night, I sat in my room pondering a world in which teachers don’t have collective bargaining rights, living wages, health insurance, or anyone to…
Public Unions are a touchy topic. Following the bill and the protests revoking collective bargaining in Wisconsin, many states with conservative governors tried to enact…
A few weeks ago, a class full of middle-class white students sat in a classroom and listened to this: These students, a group of current…
An era is ending, an era, which for better or for worse, I’ve called my own for many years, and, until the reality of my…
As we stumble through the internet, we occasionally find a piece of real, reliable scientific information, facts and figures linked to their sources where one…
It’s easy enough to tackle the straw man caricature of libertarianism that Ayn Rand imagines in which the world is starkly divided between the “parasites”…
