Category: General
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Sarah Palin
Now that the Republican 2008 Vice Presidential candidate has renounced her office in Alaska, let’s all hope that she just fades away like what’s his name… Oh yea, Dan Quayle.Another numbskull who will live in infamy as a failure of the Republican party.Now if we could just figure out how get rid of the kooky…
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Abstinence Sex Education
During the Bush Administration, they kept supporting this fallacy called, “Abstinence Sex Education.” Now through the efforts of the Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal comic we see how it actually was supposed to work.
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Belief Systems
There are two competing ideas on the process that governs the formation and maintenance of beliefs: 1) people maintain a belief because they have limited access to opposing beliefs, or 2) because they actively filter information in a way that avoids conflicting views. A new meta-analysis of past studies confirms the existence of active avoidance;…
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Whack Job Day
All this hysteria over the death of a pop star is disgusting.With all the goings on, you’d have thought that Michael Jackson cured cancer, or done something really important… OK, he was a great pop star, but to have the whole top fold of the Star-Tribune covering the story (including a headline typo because they…
