Human society is a fickle thing. On the one hand there is the individual’s want to do what they please as they please to do it. On the other is an irrational fear of the unknown and the inability to control external events that occur around us. The conflict between the two drives the need [...]
There is currently a few people in this world who seem to feel that they need to establish rules of conducts and norms on the rest of us to the exclusion of the social trends that are going on around them. While I can’t speak to individual cases, it would seem to me that in [...]
Having travelled over the Christmas season the biggest thing that I’ve noticed is how terrorism seems to be working far more effectively than what people seem to be giving it credit for. The fact that security has been ‘beefed’ up and there are calls from the White House administration into what the failings of the [...]
Abigail Thernstrom from CNN posted an article today on the nature of identity politics and specifically about the state of race politics within the US. Now I love poking fun at stereotypes mostly because of the absurdness of many of the values that people hold or think that they don’t hold when pressed and made to [...]
Ah yes – after a few weeks of doing the holidaze thing I finally came back to check on comments and to make a new blog post and what do my wondering eyes do appear but 550 spam messages awaiting moderation. Note to Spammers: What part of ALL COMMENTS ARE MODERATED are you failing to [...]
The last week has seen a rash of new articles by various news sources on the benefits of stem cell research. While not all countries have had an outright ban on research in this area some countries such as the United States have put in place severe restrictions which limit the amount of research that [...]