- Oct 20, 2017
- 3 min
THE STERNUTATION RESPONSE
We know why we sneeze. Sneezing (or sternutation) typically happens due to foreign particulate getting inside you and agitating the cilia...
- Jan 20, 2017
- 3 min
MEASURING WITH NO STANDARD
I don't think I understand the pending march on Washington. Some have said they're marching in the name of justice and in opposition...
- Nov 3, 2016
- 8 min
WE ALL LIVE
At 37 I've watched many acquaintances and friends and much of my family die. I feel like I've seen the gamut, and in everyone from the...
- Mar 11, 2016
- 9 min
BEING BORN
I only made it through the first season of Mad Men. As a television series set in an advertising firm at the end of the 1950s, I found it...
- Feb 29, 2016
- 5 min
STICKING TO ONE’S GUNS
The Archbishop of Toronto, Cardinal Thomas Collins, produced and long and insufferable video diatribe on physician-assisted suicide. His...
- Feb 5, 2016
- 4 min
STITCHES FOR PAPER-CUTS
Wow, this Valizedeh shit just won’t stop. In case you don’t know, Daryush Valizadeh (aka “Roosh”) is an American writer known (but mostly...
- Jan 15, 2016
- 5 min
SO MUCH HOT AIR
Downplaying the Islamic State shows not only our lack of courage and compassion but also our failure to learn from the past. I think of...
- Dec 20, 2015
- 2 min
I BELIEVE YOU
If you told me, clearly and specifically, that you went to Hawaii to swim with the dolphins and turtles I would say you had swimming or...
- Feb 27, 2015
- 2 min
ENDING THE CONFLICT
It feels like we’re having a really tough time with this. So let’s walk through it together. There is no conflict between freedom of...
- Jan 11, 2015
- 12 min
CHARLIE WHO?
Regarding the issues surrounding Charlie Hebdo, and the murders that recently took place in France, many folks I know have quoted or...