Straight from the Heart

Straight from the Heart

The Gun Control argument continues, and as always it polarizes the political landscape as various pundits and party policymakers mine it for more juicy controversy to feed their PR machines. I have read the Federalist Papers and have studied James Madison’s...
Money to Bern

Money to Bern

The Minimum Wage debate continues to attract attention, despite the fact that it’s technically already a done deal; it must ultimately be raised. Everyone knows that. Yet big business continues to fight it tooth and nail. Interestingly, for many decades the...
Potty Break

Potty Break

Religion versus Science, Part Two: Look: it’s pretty easy. Science is a means by which we attempt to classify, measure, and understand those things which we currently have the ability to measure, at any given point in time. Metaphysics— including religion— is a...
Warning: May Require Effort

Warning: May Require Effort

With The Pope’s™ recent visit to the United States now over, I can’t help but notice the entire country is embroiled in an angry tizzy over who’s “right” and “wrong” in accordance with the spiritual plane. Atheists and...
Euro Peons

Euro Peons

So this week— despite the very real possibility of another incredibly-expensive, completely needless partisan-publicity-stunt-driven Government “shut down” in our immediate future—  instead everyone seems up in arms about the pros and cons of raising the...
A Matter of Priorities

A Matter of Priorities

So… in the category of “social issues that endlessly generate enormous mounds of behavioral bullshit,” the whole same-sex marriage issue is quite simply the gift that keeps on giving. Lately everyone is up in arms about the handful of elected...