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I apologize for the lack of activity around here (apart from my tweeted updates which continue unabated): it can be explained by a change going on ‘under the hood’ here at John-Wright.Net. I’m changing my hosting provider for a few reasons, including some readers reporting to me that the website ...

Last night’s debate was clearly the best of the three as I predicted: McCain was at his most combative and he and Obama went at it quite vigorously over some issues, including a central issue affecting the star of the show, Joe the Plumber. Joe wants to buy the small ...

Am I live-blogging the debate tonight? It’s possible. I’ll either be doing that, or I’ll be on a boat with some friends heading to dinner on the lake. Either way, I’ll be having fun! Check back later for an update either way, and perhaps this debate will be the ‘interesting’ ...

Mike Riggs points out that Michael Schiavo, the husband who made the decision to remove his wife’s feeding tube and thus end her life a few years ago, is now speaking out against Florida’s proposed amendment to ban gay marriage. As I recall, many conservatives at the time were demonizing ...

Not a week goes by when I don’t receive these awful little conservative diatribes by email. The below is a great example; an adaptation of Jeff Foxworthy’s “You Might Be A Redneck” that aims to defend an arbitrary list of traditional conservative values. It represents part of the wider ‘culture ...

That’s right: the current financial crisis derived from left-wing ideas. If you doubt this, check out this quote from a New York Times article that appeared on September 30th, 1999: Fannie Mae, the nation’s biggest underwriter of home mortgages, has been under increasing pressure from the Clinton administration to expand ...

My two loves, Apple and political philosophy, have finally come together with this decidedly lame iPhone app which provides wonderful but fallacious philosophical statements like the one on the right. How philosophical are most iPhone users? How utilitarian is it to own an Apple product? If an iPhone rings in ...

So, here’s where I show you I’m good at something other than pissing people off for a living. My project today – my day off – was to take a pair of Melissa’s jeans and distress them myself using a power sander, bleach, block of wood, stone and steel rod. ...

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This is my live-blogged summary of the second McCain-Obama debate from Nashville, TN. 6:01pm Wow, the place is basically a TV studio with only maybe 50 or 100 people in the audience, who are surrounding the candidates on all sides. Talk about being exposed! Well, this will facilitate the audience ...

Those who believe God created the universe as it is today have taken more and more desperate measures to keep the teaching of creationism on school curricula. First, they wanted the teaching to consist of the creation stories told in Genesis. Then, when that failed because it was considered religion ...

Could this photograph win or lose votes for John McCain? (© 2008 The Atlantic.)

Those of you who check in from time to time using your iPhone should now be able to see an iPhone-friendly version of this blog, which lists the articles in chronological order and allows you to navigate through the material in an iPhone-familiar way. (I recommend turning your iPhone on ...

I’m republishing this old article of mine from May, 2006, as it is very relevant to the recent conversation on sexual morality. —————————– In an article entitled “Christian Virgins Are Overrated,” San Francisco Chronicle columnist Mark Morford makes a series of good observations about the conservative approach to sexuality, particularly ...

I spotted a friend of a friend on Facebook ridiculing Sarah Palin, basing her critique on the fact that the word ‘nuclear’ Palin pronounces ‘nucular.’ The critique is all over the web. Seitzman: “She said ‘nucular.’ Twice. … If you are a McCain/Palin/Bush voter, you and I do not have ...

Americans are stressed out with economic worries right now, so they’re turning to comfort foods according to this article. And I think it’s true, since I saw the article only half an hour after returning home on a Sunday morning with two family-sized bags of the recently re-released 4-cheese Doritos! ...

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Stephen Hopewell has responded to my latest post on sexual morality, the background of which forms a thread on this topic that runs like this: 1) My post, Philips, Pompeii and human sexuality, 2) His article, The Sex Problem, Past and Present, 3) My response, Stephen Hopewell on Pompeii, 4) ...