Don’t let them fool you. The conservatives have co-opted a traditionally liberal word to veil their evil plans to keep the poor poor and the rich rich. Choice! The government, according to the current GOP talking points, wants to take away your choices. Specifically, they want to take away your... »

A ton of my friends are either unemployed, partially employed or almost out of a job. It’s a scary place to be. Believe me, I know. I was unemployed for 3 months without insurance – that was not fun. A few people very close to me are out of work... »

Stop calling yourself a musician just because you bought a Mac and it came with GarageBand. Stop calling yourself a filmmaker just because you know how to use iMovie. Stop calling yourself a graphic designer just because you know how to put my head on Schwarzenegger’s body in Photoshop. Seriously, technology... »

It seemed like a lot of people had momentary insanity yesterday. I’m going to go out on a metaphysical limb and blame the penumbral lunar eclipse. Rare astrological events, although they offend many of the skeptics more than most observable events, seem to cause dramatic changes in many people’s personalities. Did... »

I’m going to try to keep this simple and understandable. Skepticism is welcome. But I feel strongly that modern scientific studies will come to the same conclusion that myself and many respectable thinkers of our day have already found. Some of the great mysteries of psychic phenomena can easily be explained... »

We’ve all heard that saying. Somehow it’s always someone’s grandmother who said it, “If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.” Well, if that were the case for most of us, it’d be a very quiet world we’d be living in, indeed. The words we use are... »