Homicides are down while gun ownership is up, rampages are not increasing, and gun laws don’t seem to have changed any homicide rates we can look at. So why are we so obsessed with gun control? ——— Do you believe in science? I do. I believe that truth can be ...
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You may have heard that the Mayan apocalypse, predicted by some to happen on December 21st, 2012, did not occur. But if you were listening to my radio show on that day, you might have believed differently. Listen below as I narrate the end of the world as I knew ...
Read MoreDon’t blame radio entertainers for nurse’s death
Death and comedy rarely mix. In the aftermath of a tragic event, we lose our collective sense of humor. Even among jovial, fun-loving people, if someone’s prank appears to lead to someone else’s tragedy, we sober up fast. But the apparent suicide of a nurse after she was pranked by ...
Read MoreMy tattoo
I had the words Cogito ergo sum (“I think therefore I am) inked beside a geometric circle on my left upper arm. The two elements stand apart but in relation to each other (like a satellite in orbit). What’s it’s meaning? Well… René Descartes’ Discourse on the Method was the first ...
Read MoreHating Breitbart
Take a listen as I interview Andrew Marcus, the documentarian who spent 30 months with Andrew Breitbart, the right-wing new media pioneer, activist, blogger, speaker, “jovial prankster”, “one man wrecking ball” and general pain in the ass of liberals and the mainstream media who died earlier this year. Marcus’s film, ...
Read MoreDoes Hell exist?
I interviewed Kevin Miller, director of Hellbound, a new documentary examining differing beliefs about the doctrine of Hell. I love this documentary. I found a great deal in common with Miller, who advocates non-retributive thinking about concepts of God’s justice and about the ultimate fate of human beings. All churches ...
Read More“Massacre” at Todd Bentley revival in Norway
Satire “A bloodbath” is how one Norwegian pastor described the scene at a Christian event featuring controversial U.S. preacher Todd Bentley. Bentley’s visit to Norway this week started off innocently enough. But it wasn’t long before the fears of many over the violence of his ministry were realised. Bentley, who ...
Read MoreOf Councils and Gods
“Keep your prayer in the closet!” – Jesus Christ This week’s meeting of the Town of Quartzsite Council has an item on its agenda that piqued my interest: “Discussion of letter received from the Freedom from Religious Foundation [sic] and possible action to replace prayer with a moment of silence ...
Read MoreOut for blood: Why calm heads must prevail
In the wake of what may be the worst mass shooting in U.S. history (by number of people injured or killed), it is perhaps not surprising that people want blood. But before I even woke up this morning, I had messages from people anticipating my response to this tragedy. They ...
Read MorePrager’s Premise: conservatism comes with age
I was on Dennis Prager’s nationally syndicated radio show today, taking issue with his premise that people generally get more conservative as they get older. He made the premise in order to assert that the reason people get more conservative with age is because they get wiser with age (wise ...
Read MoreWhy gay marriage isn’t the first time we’ve rethought the ‘purpose’ of marriage
The following things have all been opposed by the Christian church at various times and to various degrees throughout history. But aside from that important fact, can anybody tell me what they all have in common? • The rhythm method • Oral sex • The birth control pill • Anal ...
Read MoreThe World According to Genesis
How some things in the bible only make sense if you understand the cosmology of the writers Look straight up at the sky. The top of that huge, beautiful crystalline dome extends out in all directions and then meets the horizon, where it is propped up by mountains and the ...
Read MoreWhy Republicans can’t complain about Obamacare
Or: Why it doesn’t matter who you vote for in November Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney says if you don’t want President Obama’s sweeping health care reforms, then he’s your man in November. There are several big problems with that (see below), but he is right about one thing: people ...
Read MoreIs America the greatest country in the world?
The premiere episode of Aaron Sorkin’s new drama series The Newsroom (HBO) opens with a real bang. It does so by sacrificing a sacred cow held by many Americans: the belief that the United States is ‘the greatest country in the world’. This idea is so commonplace as to be ...
Read MoreWhy you shouldn’t kill ’em
“You wanted to kill him!” That’s what I told the death penalty advocates among my listening audience in response to the news that yet another of the Innocence Project clients had been released yesterday after 16 years in prison for a rape and murder he didn’t commit. I’ve long held ...
Read MoreWhy we should ban hand sanitizer
I used to love hand sanitizer. Such a convenient method of killing hand-borne germs. But not anymore! Not since it was reported today that products like Purell are the New Teen High. Instantly, I knew that we needed to ban it. Here are my seven arguments for banning hand sanitizer. ...
Read MoreIs 21 years in prison enough for murder?
“Well that’s where I’m going if I want to kill a bunch of people: Norway!” Those were the sentiments I heard this morning, a day after Norwegian anti-Islamic fanatic Anders Behring Breivik appeared in court to explain why he killed 77 people last summer (he said he was doing his ...
Read MoreWhy Rick Santorum is Un-American
The America created by the founding fathers of the United States was an America which prized rights and freedom above all else. In fact, individual determination – the ability to make moral, religious, ethical, life decisions for oneself – was SO important to Jefferson, Adams et al that they prized ...
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Read MoreWomen and children first?
“Male passengers were pushing ahead of women and children.” So observed retired police chief inspector Ed Gurr disapprovingly after he and his wife Liz made it successfully off the sagging Costa Concordia. They were joined by the vast majority of the vessel’s other occupants, including the captain of the ill-fated ...
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