Culture

It's the New Normal

June 10, 2014

There was another school shooting today. It won't be long before "lockdown" is as common a phrase in our schools as "The dog ate my homework" and "Do you have a hall pass?".

I'll Take the Letters F and U

May 20, 2014

Hey Pat, when it comes to playing Hangman, I would NEVER question your credibility. Nobody knows the cutthroat strategy of that game better than you. But when it comes to questioning the legitimacy of scientists, how about you tone down the wild-eyed rhetoric there a bit you suave romancer you.

The Real Miracle of Pope John Paul

April 26, 2014

The Washington Post recently published an article asking, in light of Pope Francis fast-tracking Pope John Paul's sainthood, how "miraculous" should modern saints be? 

Miracles, really?  

Hypocrisy Anyone?

December 31, 2013

MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry set the internet on fire this week with her comments about Mitt Romney having an adopted African American grandchild. Unsurprisingly Twitter, Facebook and the blogosphere erupted with myriad versions of convervatives crying "See! You liberals are racist too! It's not just us".  

She's Dreaming of a White Christmas

December 14, 2013

Megyn Kelly of Fox News made the news recently for going (disturbingly) nuts in response to an article on Slate.com by an author, an African American woman, who wrote about the concept of a black Santa Claus.

Open Letter to Greg Gopman

December 12, 2013

Greg Gopman is a San Francisco techie and the founder of Angelhack, a startup that can generate a lot of good code quickly (or so I guess). He made the news recently not for his company but for taking to Facebook to denigrate the homeless and other "street people". A decent synopsis of the story can be found here.