Nature is a tyrant! Whenever we want or need to “think outside the box,” we’re left with only images and...

  Something unwelcome is spoken, something proposed that seems unlikely in the extreme, and the hearer responds, “When pigs fly!”...

  I recall back when I was in college in the early 1990s learning many interesting concepts. I learned, among...

  There is an old joke that goes something like this: A guy attends several fundamentalist sermons and begins to...

For as long as I can remember, I have believed in an almost intuitive way that firearms are extremely dangerous....

  It has been a very distressing week in the United States. On Tuesday, July 5th, 2016, the American broadcast...

Look in your pockets (and purse, if you have that) and answer for yourself the following question: Exactly how many...

Not familiar with the somewhat obscure word shibboleth? I will presently explain it. The term is an ancient Hebrew word...

Any concerted study of politics or history can get extremely complicated. Thus we look for principles that may help us...

  Education is a fine thing. And some like to esteem themselves for having attended and graduated some college or...