Month: May 2013

Knowing What is Broken

Jon Favreau the speechwriter (not Jon Favreau the actor/writer/director) has a column today in The Daily Beast about presidential leadership. In itself, the column isn’t all that interesting to me. I have written the same...

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Is This Moral Equivalence?

It looks like Colorado is about to implement universal mail-in voting. You’ll still be able to vote early in person or in person on election day, but all voters will receive a mail-in ballot. They are also introducing...

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Wanker of the Day: Howard Kurtz

Howard Kurtz doesn’t think NBA-player Jason Collins is gay enough because he dated a woman for eight years and was even engaged to be married. No word on whether Jason Collins is black enough because we all know how...

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Science Nerd faces 15 years in Prison

You may have read about 16 year old Kiera Wilmot, a Florida student who mixed toilet bowl cleaner and aluminum foil in a small plastic bottle on school grounds. The chemical reaction from mixing these two items created a...

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I Guess We Can’t Do Anything About This

It’s May 2nd, and the month has already seen 20 people shot in Chicago, three of whom have already died. Philadelphia is slacking, with only four gunshot victims and no fatalities. The amount of #GunFAIL we are...

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