Unwelcome dissent
In the comments on my blog you will always have a fairly wide berth for discussion. Disagree with me and anyone else who posts all you want. The only “rul...
Author: Kenneth Ballard
Another doomsday come and gone
Weather alert: Fire and brimstone warning issued for May 21, 2001, redacted due to flawed data. The entire blogosphere is likely talking about the second, yet v...
Revisiting the practice of the wife taking the husband’s surname
Recall that about two months ago I discussed the well-ingrained tradition of the woman taking the husband’s name when they marry. Well, recently the Wall ...
An observation
First, let’s define a couple things. Pure capitalism and the free market mean that the market participants determine who of the market competitors survive...
Indoctrinate
If you ever want to see the amount of hypocrisy that goes on in politics, there is only one word you need to know: indoctrination. The right accuses the left of...
Remington UMC “Yellow box”
Remington has been distributing bulk ammunition under the UMC label. In gun forums and message boards this distribution has become colloquially known as the ...
Responding to a Christian
In the previous article discussing the origin of rights, I mentioned that I was in a conversation with a Christian on the conservative blog "The Right Scoo...
Origin of rights
The question is eventually posited to non-theists by theists: from where do our rights originate? Recently I entered into an argument with several Christian con...
Words of a politician
One thing that I feel is rather telling is how Republicans and social conservatives are reacting in a rather predictable fashion to revelations of things that O...