Year: 2016

A Secular View of Anti-Polygamy Laws

I don’t want to be overly cynical about this but I do try to be pragmatic. When I imagine living in a society where women (including lesbians) are married off without their consent and then expected to have sex with a...

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Rude and Stupid is No Way to Win the Presidency

They used to say that Bill Clinton was made of teflon because no bad news stuck to him, but last fall I began to think this was a better descriptor of Donald Trump who seemed to be able to say or do anything without it...

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Casual Observation

Maybe Inky the Octopus should run for the Republican nomination. He may be Australian, but he’s smart enough to win. Update [2016-4-13 20:31:0 by BooMan]: Oops, I misremembered. Inky is from New Zealand.

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