Posted Tue, Oct 4, 10:08 a.m.

While the overt prejudice behind these attacks are obvious, is this not just another example that our politics is infected with a preoccupation that glorifies personality and eschews legislative capability or the merits of his or her ideas? I lay this firmly at the feet of, first, the growing and ...

Posted Fri, Sep 16, 10:19 a.m.

Chalk this phenomenon up to another example of the seemingly limitless human capacity to compartmentalize an irrational ideology behind layers of abstraction. People *are* indeed flocking to the label, "spiritual but not religious," as a way to preserve a flavor of identity that modernity, reason and the force of secular ...

Posted Tue, Dec 22, 10:07 a.m.

It seems like apostasy to speak such a thing aloud, by why look at the outright absurdity of what the U pays for it's football team. All the post-facto claptrap about providing scholarships and opportunities for kids should be weighed in relation to the 2 million dollar salary the Sarkisian ...

Posted Tue, Dec 15, 6:42 p.m.

The "War on Christmas" should be viewed as just another non-story, created and implemented by reactionary activists in an attempt to retain relevance in our pluralistic society, as well as a recruitment tool for a dwindling ideology. It isn't a conspiracy of Muslims, Pagans, and Godless Heathens trying to destroy ...

Posted Mon, Dec 14, 1:43 p.m.

Certainly Obama felt the need to strap on his "Legacy-of-MLK-Pacificst-Reformer" hat whilst accepting the Peace Prize, he had to find some way to address his Office's most basic contradiction. He's smart enough to realize that being the commander-in-chief is incompatible with a directing a foreign policy appartus that is honest ...