In Print
- 18.Jan
- Things I found in my office desk
I cleaned out my desk today. Yikes. I’m not a hoarder – normally I’m a brutal junker of everything my family holds near and dear – but my office desk gets overlooked, so here it is, a list of items I’ve removed from the desk drawers today.
3 cellphones, chargers, boxes, manuals.
A gun lock.
A cap gun [...]- 04.Jan
- Thousands gather to protest global warming
- 02.Jan
- Avatar
Happy New Year!
I first heard about Avatar 2 years ago. No movie could live up to a two-year hype, surely? In fact, this film in many ways surpasses my initial expectations. The trailers do not do justice to the results of this new paradigm in movie-making technology. This is the biggest step forward in modern [...]- 30.Dec
- My top 5 reasons to lower the U.S. legal drinking age to 18
1) Alcohol education starts at home, and yet we have outlawed the act of learning in the average home (most people move out long before they turn 21 and therefore, under the law, parents have no chance to permit legal responsible drinking in the home).
2) When people learn from their peers rather than older adults [...]- 24.Dec
- Merry Christmas!
- 16.Dec
- Health care systems good at different things
I’ve experienced life with both kinds of health care system. Living in the United Kingdom, I grew up with the ‘universal’ model: government health care, paid for by taxes and free at the point of use. And, for the past five years, I’ve been in the United States with its ‘insurance’ model, paid for by [...]
On Radio
- 14.Jan
- Pat Robertson on Haiti
Televangelist and 700 Club host Pat Robertson is making news again with his controversial theory on why Haiti was hit with a devastating earthquake earlier this week. Here I take 2 minutes to react to his comments. Press play below.
- 14.Jan
- Uganda anti-gay after visit by western evangelicals
This is my reaction to the news that Uganda was considering a bill urging the death penalty for homosexuals after a conference held by three evangelical speakers visiting the country. Thankfully the country appears to be backtracking on the bill after international outcry. Press play below to listen. (11 mins.)
- 26.Nov
- Coma guy is NOT communicating!
Yes, it was a great Thanksgiving story: a Belgium man, thought to be in a vegetative state for 23 years, discovered to be fully conscious and communicating via keyboard. Except for the fact that the finger he’s using to type he’s not actually using at all: it’s being moved around by a caregiver in a [...]
BIO
John Wright can be heard daily on KLPZ 1380am, broadcasting along the California/Arizona state line in the United States. John is a libertarian and started this blog in 2003 as a response to current affairs. [Read more...]
