Hard times in the jungle… “Now, what I want is Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life…. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts; nothing else will ever […]
What Dickens and Sinclair tell us about Insys and Equifax
White man executed for killing black man
And it happened in the South, even… Odd this isn’t bigger news, huh? Which is odd. I mean, if ever there were a man bites dog story… Maybe the press doesn’t want to […]
For the want of critical thinking, America has succumbed to tribalism
Antarctica is cold. I learned that in grade school. The record is 128.6 degrees Fahrenheit below zero set in 1983. Did you know the southernmost continent is also a desert? I know […]
Dear Dana Loesch: can you and your NRA friends math?
How many American progressives own guns, and wouldn’t it suck to find out you guessed wrong the hard way? Did you see this one yet? I would offer some insightful analysis, but […]
The Republicans’ ‘trolley problem’
by djerrid The “trolley problem” is a classic philosophical moral dilemma. The thought experiment is as such: A runaway trolley is speeding down the rails where it will hit a group of […]
Republican healthcare plan is “mean”? Every time you parrot Trump’s words you let the GOP off the hook.
“Mean” is when you make fun of someone’s shirt. This bill isn’t “mean.” There’s this thing people are saying here recently and it needs to stop. Now. The thing they’re saying? The […]
Spotify’s “sponsored content”: payola by any other name…
by Amber Healy It’s too soon to know whether the new “sponsored content” policy helps artists or harms them. Payola is the practice—the illegal practice—of a record label paying a broadcaster to […]
Where is my tribe?
In the last two days I’ve been tone policed for being unkind, uncool, and tribal. Mind you, the single person doing the tone policing had nothing to say about what I signified. […]
Democrats need a lesson in humility. Consider what Mike Dukakis learned.
Donald won. Hillary lost. Now the Democrats face what The New York Times called “a widening breach in their party.” Perched ever farther on the left is Bernie Sanders, perhaps still smarting […]
Who really pays for cutting back rules limiting toxic emissions?
President Donald’s administrative minions, since day one, have been “reviewing” federal regulations they argue are so costly they curtail growth in American manufacturing, and worse, put American jobs at risk. Thus they […]
