Strictly speaking, ‘Free speech’ has ONLY to do with government intrusion into speech.  A serious, different question we need to ask ourselves is how much obligation does the bystaning public owe it to protesters to defend their speech/protest. And I don’t mean their “freedom of speech” because that is already clear-…

Yeah no shit. He is part of this whole “I am trying to save liberalism from itself” movement that seemingly wants to save liberalism by having it act really conservatively.

I have done pushups every day for over 20 years now. Ok look, I am not trying to big-time you or anyone, but the only way to do pushups every day and not jack your wrists up is to do knuckle-pushups. Not that much harder and WAY easier on your wrists. Keep a tight fist and try to do them on a softer surface at…

I am fearful of Trump’s presidency, namely because of the limitations of his character and what I perceive as his volatility. But here is why I am not shitting my pants (at least not yet!).

Ok, look, this is speculative and not very insightful stuff. Can we start talking about things that are actually happening. Like, no, really actually happening. Not foreshadowing or historical parallels or some Hannah Arendt/Walter Benjamin quote that’s full of metaphor for our current age. Let me be concrete-

So my 8 year old* has a question. If you were transported back to the 4th century Roman Empire (let’s say Tuscany) and arrived naked á la Schwarzenegger in the Terminator movies, what vocation would you forge for yourself using your knowledge of the future and future discoveries? If you had one pocket-sized item to…

Ok look. I hate Trump as much as the next guy, but this is a man who took his professional tutelage from Roy Cohn, the master of this shit. He trusts no one and basically only uses telephone or courier mail since email leaves an unacceptable paper trail. Do we really think he would go to a police state in order to…

Ok look folks. The reason why this is even an issue is because of our drug patents. We don’t really need them for drug development since they are a terribly inefficient way of developing drugs. So you don’t think we can innovate without patents? Well think then of our high tech military tech that is largely…

I have a feeling that more black children is not the solution that these commenters are looking for.

It’s terrible that The Blacks cannot get over slavery and all the horseplay that whites subjected them to for 100 years after that. Look! EVERYONE faced discrimination! Like the Irish! And the Italians! Catholics and Jews were not allowed to be more than 25% of the student body at Ivy League schools. Can you…

Well, there is also that thing about the actual power that the pope has. People think the CC is a top-down hierarchy in all things. It is not. In spiritual matters, the pope has considerable, but not unlimited powers. In things that are, you know, this world, he has much less.

Just because some critiques of the TPP are invalid doesn’t meet that all critiques of the TPP are invalid.

We do not have “Free Trade”, nor have we. Some examples:

This isn’t too shocking. I heard that last Christmas he gave someone his HAART.

Now I am not sure of the methodology but Gallup did a poll last year of happiness and Saudi actually came in 3rd.