Right to Bleed

We Didn’t Start the Flame War from College Humor. (via) Click here if you can’t see the embedded video. It’s priceless!

Okay. I’ve heard enough about swine flu now that I want to talk about it. There are so many things happening in the world and happening in our daily lives, that the information flow should be pretty varied. When you start to hear a story or phrase repeated over and over, it’s time to sit [...]

I’m a flaming liberal. If I were any more of a flaming liberal, I would actually be on fire. So, big surprise, I read a lot of liberally-bent blogs. I read a lot about feminism, racism, why rebublicans suck, atheism, and sex. I should know better. Anytime one of my regular blogs has a title [...]

More links for your Sunday reading:

A cop shows his true colors. You might have to backtrack a bit to get the context for the story, but really, it’s just more of the same.

An interesting story about a completely different aspect of dealing with police: the McDonald’s 911 woman, but with a different spin.

How organic is [...]

Check out this fun article: 5 Ways ‘Common Sense’ Lies To You Everyday. It contains 5 fun little logical fallacies that we fall prey to everyday. I’m sure that there are probably more than these, but the article has 5 great ones named The Historian’s Fallacy, The Nirvana Fallacy, The Appeal to Probability, The Regression [...]

“Question Authority” makes a great bumper sticker, but how do you do it? What’s the nitty-gritty of questioning authority? Is it limited to cussing at your parents and cheating on your taxes? There are an infinite number of ways to question authority. Here are my top five:

Question Monogamy - Monogamy is definitely the authority when [...]

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“Outsourcing My Violence” is a guest post by Joshua Bardwell, which originally appeared in his blog, and is reprinted fully here.
One of the arguments against gun ownership goes something like this: “Given that we have the police and the military to protect us, why do non-police and non-military citizens need guns?” I have several answers [...]

My compost project is coming along nicely. My bin is nearing 1/3 full. We’ve had a lot of rainy days, so it’s not getting very hot yet. I don’t know if it’ll be able to get hot before it gets full, though. I can be patient. We use lots of produce and coffee, so we’re [...]

Every time I read about new abortion legislation, I get a little twitchy. A list of states considering ultrasound-related abortion legistlation came across my desktop. It’s from over a month ago, and I don’t know if these bills passed. I am angry that politicians want to add restrictions and exceptions and details to how/when/why women [...]