People everywhere are asking, now that we’re firmly entrenched in the 21st century, “Dude, where’s my flying car?” There are places online where you can read about the obsession with this query, and re-experience (or for many of us, experience for the first time) the vision of the future that never was, from fifty […]
I contribute to an on-line chat board fairly regularly, and I find that I am often the only voice of moderate liberalism. Most of the contributors are right and far right of center. Recently, the topic of Affirmative Action was raised. That discussion evolved into a discussion on education in America, and how […]
In case you haven’t noticed, I’ve blatantly ripped off Nick’s closing from a recent post (thank you, Nick). This phrase, “barely human,” sums up how I feel much of the time. Just this morning, in fact.
I often wonder what it means to be part of the human race. Now, it could be argued that […]
