Ayn Rand has been in the news lately since Republican VP candidate Paul Ryan is on record as saying that his thoughts on government have bee...

Robert Reich had an opinion column after the Paul Ryan pick for VP in which he said, "Ryan exemplifies the social Darwinism at the core...

I'm late to the party on the whole "you didn't build that" controversy. Obama's statement at first struck me as just v...

I've long been skeptical of the theory that global warming is man-made. More accurately, I've long been skeptical of the evidence. T...

It looks like I let June be my first month since starting this blog without a post. Sorry. I have a deadline of July 31 to turn in my next b...

We've finally reached a point in our move where we've carted off the 5000 card board boxes that formed a maze in our living area an...

So, gay marriage advocates had a bad day in North Carolina yesterday. Or did they? Roughly 40% of voters came out and voted against an amend...

Tomorrow in North Carolina, we go to the polls to vote on an anti-gay marriage amendment that would prevent the state or any business within...

Cheryl and I have decided it's time to rescue the US economy. We've just helped clear the glut of houses on the market by purchasing...

I have a story in the latest Intergalactic Medicine Show anthology. If you follow the link, you will find in the customer reviews a one sta...

Since I wrote my essay on why politicians should resist manipulating the price of gasoline, pretty much every op-ed article of the last wee...

Random opinion #1 Has there ever been a lamer attempt at creating a scandal than the attempt at outrage by some right-wingers over a 1991 vi...

My last post ridiculed Newt Gingrich's vision of making the moon the 51st state. Now, I'm going to ridicule him for recently saying ...

Newt Gingrich was the subject of much mockery this week when he proposed a permanent lunar colony by the end of his second term. Perhaps he ...

Yesterday in New Hampshire, Santorum explained his opposition to same-sex marriage by equating it to polygamy: Santorum retorted, “Are we sa...

I've been obsessing over the Decemberist's album the Hazard's of Love. It's a fantastic fairy tale love story told as a rock...

I've been seeing a lot of "Best of" lists in recent days, and been thinking about my own favorite music discoveries of the yea...

First, as an atheist, I'd like to apologize for the behavior of some of my brethren this season. Specifically, I'm talking about the...

This week produced one of those moments in politics where I felt, once more, that I lived in a Looking Glass universe. The heart of the weir...