Briggs

“I was all, like—awugh.”

I heard that conversation yesterday at a restaurant where I was having lunch. Two women sat together at a table talking on their cell phones. Presumably, they were talking not…

Fun

Set up your recorders: tomorrow’s the day!

For those readers in the States and Canada (and elsewhere?) who get the History channel, tomorrow, Tuesday 23 December, is The Big Day. I'll be on the show Weird US…

Fun

Wrestlers sponsor “earth hour”

I got an email---a press release---from a guy named Dan Forman from the WWF asking me to get the word out about "earth hour." Up till now, I had no…

Culture

Unnecessary hypervigilance in parks: no unaccompanied adults!

I think that sign came from England. Here in the States, we have the similar sign but in picture form---a lone adult with a circle around him and a slash…

Statistics

Here’s a good idea!

The situation is this: New Yorkers are loosing their jobs at a rate not seen since perhaps the Great Depression. The housing market is still heading downwards. People have less,…

Culture

What is the worst crime?

Depends on what you mean by worst. If it means what most of it think it means---individual agony and suffering---then the culprits for worst are obvious: murder, torture and other…

Fun

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Philosophy

How not to argue for stem cell research

I received this press release from the Center for Inquiry (CFI), a group that grew out of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (or CSICOP).…