I saw something disturbing in the news today. No, nothing Donald Trump tweeted. Rather, the Parker Brothers game “Monopoly” is retiring one of its signature game pieces: The thimble. It was ousted by popular vote, so this was hardly an authoritarian or fascist move by Parker Brothers – sorry, I […]
I bought a pack of gum yesterday, and for a moment, I marveled at the power of capitalism that makes thousands of people work together to produce this wonderful chewy thing for a total stranger. Even people who *like* me would never go to that kind of trouble to meet […]
If you lived during the latter half of the eighties, you were probably no stranger to the face of the most adorable little boy on television — Danny Pintauro, the child actor who played Jonathan Bowers on ABC’s hit sitcom “Who’s the Boss?” The shy son of the newly-single and […]
Some people like to complain about the Electoral College, “My state has been overwhelmingly [political party] for YEARZ, so my vote doesn’t count,” and believe that going to a national popular vote instead would make their votes count more. There are pros and cons to that idea — mostly cons, […]
This post is actually horribly, horribly late, seeing how Bill Nye’s Big Think Video on abortion came out over a month ago. I almost didn’t write this post simply on that account. But I felt like I had to include it because it is, frankly, the reason this blog exists. […]
I learned something interesting today about the power of unintended consequences: While gay marriage proponents are obviously trumpeting the Obergefell v. Hodges decision as an unequivocal win, the ramifications of the Supreme Court’s decision might actually put some gay — and straight — couples in a bind when it comes to employer […]