So, I got mugged yesterday for my iPhone 4. Woo, my hazing is complete and I can now officially say that I am a true New Yorker! Actually, the story has a happy ending. I had just finished a chess tournament at the Marshall Chess Club and was turning the corner of 10th Street onto [...]
Continue reading about You’re not a true New Yorker until you’ve been mugged.
Suppose you are a mad scientist performing experiments in your basement and you discover a drug that cures cancer. Do you have a moral obligation to share it with the rest of the world? What if you just sit on it and keep it to yourself, is that evil? Can the government intervene and force [...]
Every other developed nation in the world has a national healthcare system that works better and costs less than ours. If we switched to one of their systems it would SAVE us money, not COST us money. We wouldn’t even have to spend time and energy coming up with our own plan, we could just [...]
Continue reading about Universal Healthcare Is Not Expensive
Gay marriage used to be illegal in California but then the Supreme Court decided that that was unconstitutional and legalized it. The people didn’t like this and passed an amendment to California’s Constitution making gay marriage illegal again. A few weeks ago, the Supreme Court upheld the Constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. And suddenly everybody [...]
Continue reading about Gay Marriage: We Have The Country We Deserve
I was reading in the New York Times today about President Obama’s plan to allow terrorists to be detained without a trial. Setting aside the fact that this is simply more of the same stuff that we had under Bush, I simply don’t understand it. What could possibly be the downside of allowing people to [...]
Continue reading about I Don’t Understand Why It’s EVER Necessary To Detain People Without A Trial
The average temperature of the Earth has risen by 1°C over the past hundred years and suddenly humanity is on the brink of extinction, or so say the doomsayers. Don’t worry, this isn’t a global warming denial thread, but it is a *slap* *slap* wake up! thread. It’s naïve to think Earth’s climate will NEVER [...]
Continue reading about I have a bone to pick with Global Warming
Look, I’m the first to admit that we young people are dumb: we are sex-crazed, druggy rock ‘n roll freaks who love Family Guy and fart jokes, but at least we care about the future. For us, most of our lives lie in the future. For old people, most of their lives lie in the [...]
An anonymous person posted a comment asking, “What are your reasons for abortion to be kept legal?” It’s such an important question that I’ve decided to dedicate an entire post to answering it. But before I begin I want to address one of his claims that: “Science has unambiguously determined when a new life begins, [...]
In the United States: 52 million men use contraceptives 38 million women use contraceptives 1.6 million abortions are performed per year 100,000 scientists use stem cells in their research If you, like many others, thought there were only 91.7 million murders in the United States each year, think again. The problem is much worse than [...]
Continue reading about Women Commit Murder If They Don’t Have Sex (Humor)
Why is being gay a sin? Because the Bible says, “You shall not lie with a man as with a woman; such a thing is an abomination” (Leviticus 18:22). Why is slavery a good thing? Because the Bible says, “Slaves, submit yourselves to your masters with all respect, not only to those who are good [...]
Continue reading about The Constitution Is No Better Than the Bible
Recent Comments