Science and Religion – Less than BFF
Science and religion are wholly and utterly incompatible. Today the religious ingratiate themselves with science at every opportunity as, quite rightly, they know they’ll look like quacks if they are seen denying basic science the way they used to. Deprived of their historical freedom to be pontificating tyrants disseminating ignorance, many have become yogis bending...
Honest profane comedy, James Joyce, and jerking off
As mainstream discussions in print, blogs and on TV panels increasingly feature a class of people unfit to talk and write, I felt not just pleasure but sincere relief after seeing live comedy for my first time. It was local amateurs performing in the basement of a seedy little bar last week, and though I...
The Human Race Depends On You – LYP@H pt. 3
If I were to ask you to name a machine that people connect to in order to live, is your first response an iPhone or an iron lung? Leave Your Phone at Home Day will determine whether these machines represent essentially the same thing, as if we do in fact need a machine to live,...
Why House Plants are Better than Dogs
Some people believe that a home isn’t a home without a dog. To hear these people talk, you’d think that shedded hair, sharp fangs, and crap on carpets are trivial matters. They’re barking money pits, these dogs, and for too long we’ve been under the false impression that they’re better than houseplants. Let’s investigate. Unlike...
We are the only pre and post internet generation: Be scared!
’84 babies, plus or minus a couple years, were the first to grow up with internet but the last to remember life without it. It’s scary to think that this perspective will be unavailable to future generations. Every generation believes they’re nothing like the previous one, but now it’s true. Technology is like an avalanche covering everything. As...
