Do Sunday ‘blue laws’ make sense?
One of the last ‘blue laws’ in Arizona has been repealed, making this Sunday the first during which someone in the state may buy alcoholic drinks before ten in the morning.
A ‘blue law’ is a law designed to enforce moral standards. Typically blue laws involve what people may do on Sundays, the day Christians call [...]
He’s back! Ted Haggard to start new church
Ted Haggard is back. You remember him, right? The former influential evangelical church leader who was discovered to have a gay-sex-with-male-prostitute-and-possible-love-for-methamphetamine habit on the side and is today insisting he’s entirely heterosexual? I’ve written him an open letter. *Clears throat.*
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Dear Ted,
You’re gay, dude. Own it!
Heterosexual men do not desire sexual intercourse with other men. In [...]
Why football isn’t big in America
I’ve just spent 30 minutes on-air discussing with my boss the game called ‘football’ by approximately 96 percent of the world and ’soccer’ by the remaining 4 percent, most of whom live in the United States of America. He thinks the game is boring, that there’s not enough scoring, and there’s no reason at all why [...]
BP and the blame game
We’re all very well aware, by this stage, what an environmental catastrophe the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has turned out to be.
But what continues to amaze me is the blame game being played out across the media every day, spun by people who are ideologically inclined to attack anything to do [...]
My Immigration Solution
Lest I fall into the trap of thinking that big political problems have simple solutions, I’ll say this carefully.
We’ve created a brouhaha in Arizona by opting to enforce federal immigration laws at the state level. It’s estimated that non-effective enforcement of those laws by the U.S. Government, including a penetrable border with Mexico, have allowed [...]
Notes from The Howard Stern Show by David Arquette
David Arquette – actor, director, producer, screenwriter, husband of actress Courtney Cox – won the lottery last week by being given the rarely-offered opportunity to sit in on the world’s best radio program with the 60-plus-strong cast and crew of The Howard Stern Show. He wrote a letter of thanks afterward which gives a rare [...]
How now brown cow
“How now brown cow.” There. I said it.
I said it here, and I said it on my radio show yesterday afternoon. Nobody called the show in response to my uttering ‘How now brown cow’. Nobody told me I shouldn’t have said it, or expressed shock or anger about it. They didn’t call to support it [...]
God visits judgment upon Europe as he did Pompeii
In a world where earthquakes rumble and volcanoes erupt, where humans seek to explain ‘Bad’ in meaningful ways, for whom logic still competes with emotion, it isn’t surprising that dots are sometimes connected using God as an explanation.
Will Crawley wonders if it’s only a matter of time before people of a certain mindset connect the [...]
Response to Mark Morford: “One sandwich to kill you all”
Are the calories consumed in restaurants beloved of liberals any healthier than the calories consumed in the multinational outlets they despise? You’d think so, listening to Mark Morford.
Dear Mr. Morford,
I’ll begin by agreeing with you that the KFC Double Down sandwich, composed of two pieces of fried chicken, two strips of bacon, two slices of [...]
Can animals predict earthquakes?
A few hundred years ago, a little movement called the Enlightenment caused us to take a very useful step in the name of human progress; that was the development of and reliance upon the scientific method. Reliance upon reason and evidence, and skepticism about everything else.
I say ‘useful’ because, since The Enlightenment, we’ve developed the [...]
How a libertarian can (almost) welcome the health care reform bill
The health care reform bill signed into law this week by President Obama is significant and historic, but I’m having a hard time explaining to some of my more conservative friends why I’m not loudly denouncing it for its infringements on the market.
Conservatives are up in arms … livid. This is Tyranny and Socialism, they [...]
The fallacy of first impressions
On Friday, I had an on-air exchange that fascinated me. I had just replayed a portion of my interview with Dr. Nick Bostrom, an Oxford University professor and well-known transhumanist, on the subject of his Simulation Argument. This is the paper that spurred a serious academic discussion in 2003 on the idea that there is [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
