A friend of mine from high school asked on Facebook a few days ago, "Why should I pay for your health insurance?" Because we have ...

Times Higher Education has just posted a rather amusing defense of evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa. If you managed to miss the ...

I love my fandom, and my fandom drives me insane. By "my fandom," I mean the people who interact with science fiction and fantasy ...

I've been watching the DC comics reboot commentary without much personal stake. It bothers me that the universe is losing Oracle in a re...

It's no secret that my childhood was no sunny idyll. If you've managed to miss it, you can catch up some here and here and here . ...

Juniper Shoemaker is a very busy woman. She's working on her biomedical PhD while filling in the gaps that an B.A. in English will leave...

I'm a fairly quiet person. I don't talk a lot. It isn't because my brain is empty. It certainly isn't because sitting back a...

This is my first piece of writing that first garnered a real response. The first draft of this, written when I was a junior in high school, ...

You see the arguments: Atheists can't have morals because they don't have a god to provide them. Atheists think this world is all th...

I don't know whether the rape charges against Julian Assange are valid. I do know, however, that they are rape charges . It doesn't ...

I'm guessing you're aware of the concept of the nonapology , the thing that is phrased as an apology, often even contain the words ...

To those implying* that your friendly local atheist is taking some new-found interest in fighting child sexual abuse because it involves the...

I got an interesting response to my post, " Going Emo ," by email. It was specifically in response to the last bit of a single bul...

I'm grumpy today because I'm not feeling well and haven't been for...well, far too long. The migraines are getting more frequent...