Given the high price and low quality of music today I imagine I don’t have to struggle to convince anyone that the music industry has been hijacked by big business. Music sucks. Stars are chosen and groomed by the main stream media rather than chosen for their talent by fans and, as it […]

There was a day not so long ago when I thought racism was funny. I’d tell a racist joke and would almost immediately backpedal into a disclaimer like “I’m not racist, I have black friends!” Or I’d launch into a false justification about the difference between racism, stereotyping, and simply cracking a joke.
But in […]

Today I had a peculiar experience. I was discussing religion with a coworker and, for the first time in recorded history, he backed down from an argument. This gentlemen, in addition to being my coworker, is also quite a bit smarter than I. Why would a man who could ordinarily debate circles around me […]

Here’s a hypothetical situation I’d like you to consider.  You’ve got this friend who is, for lack of a better word, a career scumbag.  You knew this when you befriended him many years ago, but when you were both kids getting into fights, being loud and offensive in public, and generally pissing off anyone and […]

Several weeks ago at the Conference on World Affairs in Boulder, Colorado, a guest speaker suggested to his audience of high school students that they “have sex and use drugs” (article). Joel Becker, a professor of psychology at the University of California, was quoted as saying,

“I am going to encourage you to have sex and encourage you to use drugs appropriately. Why I am going to take that position is because you are going to do it anyway,” he continued. “I think as a psychologist and health educator, it is more important to educate you in a direction that you might actually stick to. So, I am going to stay mostly on with the sex side because that is the area I know more about. I want to encourage you to all have healthy, sexual behavior.”