The Limits Of The Phrase: Passed Away
Reporting on the death of television actor Cory Monteith, Andrea Mandrell wrote for USA Today that “the Glee star had passed away due to an apparent drug overdose.” When I think of the phrase “passed...
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Which Kills More: Terrorists Or Air Polluters?
The War On Terror has led the United States of America to start two disastrous wars, to create an entirely new cabinet-level department of government, and to trash most of the Bill of Rights. It’s all...
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After a Big Gay Fall, How has the Vengeful God been Dealing out Hurricanes?
A number of prominent fundamentalist religious preachers in America… Stephen Bennett Harold Camping Graham Dow John Hagee Yehuda Levin John Piper Pat Robertson … have repeatedly insisted that God uses...
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Calculating the Incalculable Loss
“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
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It’s been a Big Gay Year. Where are the Hurricanes of Doom?
Motivational speaker Ken Crow is the latest right-wing Christian to declare that God will use natural disaster as an instrument of judgment against communities that allow same-sex marriage. Crow posted...
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Death of a Generation
By all appearances, gone. I have to believe something will come up from the roots.
View ArticleCan Feeling Younger Really Cause Older People To Live Longer?
The results of a study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association this week, have received a good deal of attention online. The research found that elderly people who reported...
View ArticleWhen a Loaded Gun is in your Handbag, it’s not an Accident
“US woman accidentally shot dead by son, two, in Idaho Wal-Mart,” the BBC writes in a news headline today. The woman in question had a handgun. She put it in her handbag. Before she put the handgun in...
View ArticleIn The Long Run We Are All Dead
Friday seems an apt time for this reminder: Economist John Maynard Keynes advised, “In the long run we are all dead.” Invest wisely.
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Born Free and Not Really Taxed To Death
Yesterday, I came upon this sign in Seneca County, New York. It was placed there by a member of the Seneca County Republican Party, who wanted to let everyone traveling down that road know that he had...
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America, Your Child is Safe from Murder. Your Child is Safer from Murder in...
Last week, the Bureau of Justice Statistics released its annual report on safety in U.S. schools, bringing our knowledge of school killings up to date for the 2011-2012 school year. Our mass media...
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9/12: Never Forget
Every year in the United States, September 11 features newspapers, television shows and websites repeating the phrase “Never Forget.” I agree that the death of 2,980 innocent civilians in New York,...
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Statistics To Help You Stop Freaking Out About Mass Shootings
Earlier today, I tried to point out that people’s panic about mass shootings in the United States has gone far beyond reason by writing a satirical article about the claim that mass shootings are...
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The Teeny Weeny War Of Ted Cruz
This week, a couple of Americans went to a center that serves people with disabilities where one of them worked, and shot 14 people. In response, U.S. Senator Ted Cruz admonished the nation that this...
View Article26 Civilians, Including 7 Children, Killed In Syria! By Who? Why?
“Bomb the shit out of them!” says Donald Trump. “We’re going to carpet bomb them in oblivion!” says Ted Cruz. “Expand airstrikes in Syria and Iraq!” says Marco Rubio. “In order to make them look like...
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U.S. Deaths from Terrorism, 1995-2014
Considering recent claims that terrorism is an existential threat that should be driving Americans to costly actions such as expanding the budget deficit, eroding civil liberties protections,...
View ArticleBorders, Death, Medical Error And Donald Trump
Number of Americans killed per year from Muslim terrorists who have infiltrated the United States through the border with Mexico: Zero. Number of Americans killed per year by medical error: 251,454...
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The New York City Islamic Terrorist Attack In Perspective
I was in Manhattan the day when a man who had declared allegiance to the dwindling Islamic State purposefully drove his truck into pedestrians and bicyclists there, killing 8 people. After 10 months of...
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