Random Brain Droppings

 (Author's note: This story is true, although I had to go creative-nonfiction to stretch it out and alter it enough so I wouldn't...

For quite a while now I have found the numerous dystopic novels and movies that are polluting entertainment media nauseating. Sure,...

As someone who likes to hold the banner of science and rationality, I've got to admit to a certain level of hypocrisy. See, whi...

The mindset that has always puzzled me is how certain political types crow about making America number one in the world—yes I para...

Several years ago an otherwise reasonable person I know came running up to me clutching papers that he said, “proved President Obam...

Growing up in the Lowcountry of South Carolina you had to expect loud and violent thunderstorms during the spring and summer months. ...

First, the more pleasant and intriguing question: There are two great existential questions facing the human race. Given how...