Just something amusing I ran across online: Abstinence pledges make you horny. A new eight-year study just released reveals that American teenagers who take “virginity” pledges of the sort so favored by the Bush administration wind up with just as many STDs as the other kids. But that’s not all — taking the pledges also […]

Maybe it’s ADD. I used to think in in long, carefully-crafted, almost legalistic arguments. Now I think in plosives. Like this one. I make no claims for the following as carefully-reasoned political discourse. It’s more like a hunch or an instinct. Whenever Proxident Bush— I can’t bring myself to call him “President”; it just feels […]

Several people have already written, asking me how to leave a comment. Click on the word “Comments” at the bottom of each post. If there are already comments present, it will display them, along with a form for entering your own. If not, you’ll just get the form. (Yeah, there was a glitch in the […]

Against the screechings of my better judgment, I’ve decided to start a blog. My judgment screeches because it knows it’s only a matter of time before I say something here that I’ll regret. I’m cursed with a big mouth, lots of opinions, and a somewhat deficient self-censoring mechanism. But there are other considerations that outweigh […]