Whether it was a joke or not, Obama said he wants us to have an epiphany and vote for him. Well, I had one about him yesterday, and it’s that he has a major deficiency in the realm of moral … Continue reading →
I’ve come to the conclusion that one of the main themes of the coming election isn’t just “change.” It’s guts. Why else would Hillary lie about having come under fire in Bosnia? Surely claiming there was physical danger involved in … Continue reading →
[Part I.] Science is certainly far from infallible. That’s especially true of studies related to human beings, on whom any sort of research is notoriously difficult to perform and evaluate. The variables are myriad and uncontrollable, and ethics ordinarily prevents … Continue reading →
A confession a day keeps Governor Paterson okay.
Continue reading →I read this Spencer Ackerman piece with some interest, thinking it promised to define Obama’s foreign policy. And, since Obama has been roundly criticized for being all rhetoric, with no “there” there (as Gertrude Stein would say), I was looking … Continue reading →
For all of you Sanity Squad podcast fans, tune in tonight at 8 PM Eastern time (or download later) to hear Dr. Sanity, Siggy, Shrink, and me discuss the volatile situation in China re Tibet.
Continue reading →It’s not news that in times of economic strife, grownup children often go back to live with their parents, if they’re desperate enough or shameless enough and the parents are kind enough to have them. And since this is a … Continue reading →
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Continue reading →[This is a repost from Easter 2005.] Happy Easter to all my celebratory Christian readers, and to all those who just enjoy the holiday as well! One year when my son was little, I spent the week prior to Easter … Continue reading →
What is it about Florida and voting? The state seems cursed. Along with Michigan, it’s become the center of a Democratic political firestorm because of an earlier decision by national Party leaders to disallow its primary due to violations of … Continue reading →
[This is the first part of two.] So this is what it’s come to. Our largely successful struggle to eradicate the once-common infectious diseases of childhood through the mechanism of vaccines has been so successful that many parents voluntarily eschew … Continue reading →
The biggest question for Obama in the wake of the Wright controversy is: why didn’t he more forcibly repudiate his pastor, or at least question him? Surely, as a political animal, he knew this was a political time bomb. Part … Continue reading →