It’s early to say whether or when the outcry over the Supreme Court’s June 26 decision legalizing same-sex marriage will quiet down, but last week popular Christian writer Jonathan Merritt made an interesting point (link) about the “cultural amnesia” of … Continue reading
Like any other straight person not working in the wedding industry, I haven’t been affected at all by the Supreme Court’s recent decision legalizing same-sex marriage. But the arguments of the losing side have been interesting (see previous posts here, … Continue reading
Maybe they know better and they’re just saying this stuff to get on YouTube? Link: https://youtu.be/kyhCOPh48ew In fairness, a lot of people probably did answer the questions correctly besides the vacationing Italian and were simply left out of the video, … Continue reading
Yesterday’s video from NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day website (link) is a short one produced by the National Spaced Society to remind people what’s coming very soon: the first flyby of Pluto. (The images of Pluto shown are of … Continue reading
Last week’s New York Times Magazine had an article (link) by Adrian Chen about a strange new Russian plot. It seems that Russia has, no kidding, deployed an army of Internet trolls tasked among other things with making Putin look … Continue reading
As noted a couple of days ago (link), Bill Maher recently poked fun at the notion that members of the dominant religion in the U.S. are being persecuted. This provoked a response from Sean Hannity and his guests Monday night … Continue reading
Bill Maher addresses silly claims by a variety of prominent conservatives that Christians are heavily persecuted and Christianity on the verge of being criminalized. Funny but also pretty accurate: Link: https://youtu.be/ybH66U72xd0 So why is it that some Christians really do … Continue reading
For a number of years bullying has attracted a lot of attention, and schools have justifiably come under heavy criticism for not doing enough to stop it. The good news is that the pressure appears to have started producing some … Continue reading
It occasionally happens that a fringe groups, often religious, will confidently predict the end of the world, and when the deadline passes and The End does not come, they have to deal with it. Some admit they were wrong. Some … Continue reading
What’s commonly called “Obamacare” is also known as the Affordable Care Act (ACA), but the full formal title is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, a mouthful that makes it obvious why the shorter names are way more common … Continue reading