Author: DuctapeFatwa

In the interest of full disclosure, I do not nor have I ever had any interest in visiting Aruba. It is, from all accounts, essentially a party resort island, given over almost exclusively to tourism, and aside from a museum or...

Wide gaps between haves and have nots have never been good for the social order, and when these gaps become extreme, unbridgeable chasms of hopelessness and despair, they are fatal. This occurs independently of religion and...

A pattern is emerging as the cleanup of Mississippi’s Gulf Coast morphs into its multibillion-dollar reconstruction: Come payday, untold numbers of Hispanic immigrant laborers are being stiffed. Sometimes, the boss simply...

brinnainne incited me to write this. Though today a topic popularly associated with Islam, the custom of women covering their heads predates the birth of the Prophet Mohammed by several millennia, at least. As quoted in the...

The prospect of a bird flu outbreak may be panicking people around the globe, but it’s proving to be very good news for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other politically connected investors in Gilead Sciences, the...