Inalienable Rights

by | Oct 4, 2014 | Culture, Politics

A clip of Ben Affleck on Bill Maher’s show, wherein Affleck loses his cool, is making the conservative website rounds today. I normally don’t watch Maher (I normally don’t watch television news or talking heads in general), so this only came to my...

For The Good of Others

by | Oct 1, 2014 | Culture

A couple months ago I embroiled myself in yet another argument with conservatives regarding gay marriage. As previous posts on this page make very clear, I support the right of gay couples to access the same legal and tax benefits and to choose to bind themselves with...

Company Loyalty

by | Sep 29, 2014 | Culture, Not Politics

Here’s a dirty little secret: No matter what you’re told, no matter what words you hear about loyalty and family and teams, your company does not care about you. Oh, no. Not a bit. Sure, your supervisor may be a great person, who values your work, looks...

Greed and Envy

by | Sep 28, 2014 | Culture

I had an interaction recently over the Biblical proverb money is the root of all evil. I corrected the original poster, noting that the saying is actually the love of money is the root of all evil. The OP didn’t acknowledge a difference. I didn’t think...

Is There A Red Pill For The Wealthy?

by | Sep 27, 2014 | Culture

Pay even a little attention to any left-liberal protest, and you will hear diatribes against the 1% and against big corporations. These twin and overlapping pillars of malevolence are, we are told, the source of all that’s wrong in our society. They’re the...

Privacy, Technology and Market Forces

by | Sep 25, 2014 | Culture

Recently, Apple made a big splash in the news with an announcement that its new system of data encryption would make it impossible for the company to comply with demands from the government that data on an individual’s smartphone be retrieved and provided to the...