Happy Bastille Day
Read MoreHAPPY BASTILLE DAY!
Happy Bastille Day to all of our good friends in France.
R.I.P. Gov. Edwin Edwards
Read MoreRemembering Louisiana’s flamboyant four-term governor Edwin Edwards, who died today.
Re-thinking the Value of Work
Read MoreA few thoughts on what working with your hands means and how we tend to view manual labor.
The Earth is Not a Garbage Can
Read MoreClimate change isn’t off in the distant future. It’s now. It’s happening.
We Must Never Forget America’s Forgotten War and the Catastrophic Mistakes of Afghanistan
Read MoreIf you’re reading this, thank you. You’re in the minority. Almost no one seems to care about one of the worst foreign policy mistakes and military blunders in United States history.
Restaurant Review: Aromi Italian Restaurant and Wine Bar (Summerlin-Las Vegas)
Read MoreMy review of Aromi, a new Italian restaurant in Summerlin (Las Vegas).
The Mating Game
Read MoreSam Harris’ “Making Sense” podcast is always an intriguing listen, but this latest episode is particularly enlightening.
Gore Vidal on Religion
“I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam — good people, yes, but any religion based on a single, well, frenzied and virulent god, is not as useful to the human race as, say, Confucianism, which is not a religion but an ethical and educational system.”
— Gore Vidal
Fireworks Are Un-American
A thought for the day on this Fourth of July:
Can someone please explain to me what’s so “patriotic” about Americans buying the overwhelming majority of fireworks from Communist China, filling the air above our cities with smoke, creating fires in drought-ridden areas, causing stress for our veterans who are suffering from PTSD, and terrifying tens of millions of pets and other animals?
Fact: There’s NOTHING “patriotic” about fireworks.
READ MORE: For Independence Day Fireworks, Americans Depend on China
Read MoreOur Distorted Reality
How we view others depends on where we stand and what’s in the way.
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