A Modest Proposal

Nothing says haredi Judaism like thousands of men packed in a room talking about what women need to do, does it? A huge, married-men-only conference on modesty was held a week-plus ago to discuss the necessity of buckling down on dress codes for women and girls. As...

Today’s Scary Statistic

Researchers Susan Fournier and Michael Guiry found that only 15% of the people they surveyed said that they’d be satisfied “living a comfortable life.” The other 85% of their survey claimed that they would only be happy when their income and...

Adults Take Care of Their Business

In the wake of the death of a friend of his (who happens to be a friend of a friend of a friend of mine), Neil Gaiman writes in his blog about the importance of writers (and musicians, and artists, and anybody else who might create work that has rights and royalties...

To Muh Fellow Americuns

Happy Secular American Holiday to you all! I hope that wherever you are, you have safely avoided or survived Wednesday’s nightmareathon that is busy air travel under the TSA. I keep forgetting that today is a holiday that I’ve celebrated probably every...