Why Evolution Is True

For some time I’ve been having an afternoon pick-me-up in the form of matcha, or powdered Japanese green tea. Although when prepared in the ceremonial manner (I don’t do the ceremony proper) it makes only three sips of tea, I find it energizing, stimulating, and, most of all, tasty. (There are said to be numerous health […]

As we all know, PuffHo is having a big campaign to not only make Islam seem like a Wonderful Religion of Peace, but (and more admirably) to show that not all Muslims are terrorists. But they repeatedly conflate criticism of the religion with criticism of its adherents, lumping both under the rubric of “Islamophobia”—a word […]

Well, the NBC News that I watch nightly finished up its broadcast with a segment on the Ark Encounter (Kentucky’s “Ark Park”), with lots of shots of the Ark and an interview with Ken Ham. It was touted as the largest man-made timber-frame structure on Earth and was nothing less than an advertisement for this execrable creationist […]

Here’s a five-minute video Ayaan Hirsi Ali made for Prager University (yes, I know what it is) decrying the neglect by Western feminists of Islamic oppression of women. I’m putting it up to stimulate discussion (but don’t bother saying that because Prager University was founded by a conservative, we can dismiss the entire video). There are […]

It’s the 180th day of 2016, so we’re nearly halfway through the year. And it’s Engineer’s Day in Ecuador! On this day in 1889, my own area of “Chicagoland”, Hyde Park, was annexed by the city of Chicago proper, making the city the largest in the U.S. by area. (I don’t think that’s true any longer.)  […]