by Ken JP Stuczynski | Jul 3, 2014 | Society & Culture
I am always amused when people quote the dictionary. I have never known any such person to actually know how to use the book, or realize how common the [[denotation]]s are archaic and not relevant to the [[connotative]] use in the context at hand. Or maybe they are...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Jun 30, 2014 | Philosophy & Ethics, Psychology, Religion & Spirituality, Science & Pseudoscience, Society & Culture
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, August 29, 2013} A Texas megachurch that encouraged its congregants to resist vaccination has been hit with an outbreak of measles. Divine retribution? I’m thinking they don’t see it that way. A measles outbreak...
by Barry Fagin | Jun 24, 2014 | Business & Economics, Philosophy & Ethics, Politics & Law, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, March 27, 2014} This week the Supreme Court heard arguments in Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. This is a high-profile, high-stakes [[Obamacare]] case. Ultimately, the court will be asked to shed light on the question of...
by Luis Clemente | Jun 22, 2014 | Politics & Law, Society & Culture
The immigration debate has taken a monumental turn. This time, we are talking about an increase in the number of unaccompanied illegal/undocumented children immigrants from the Northern Triangle of Central America – Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador. After...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Jun 19, 2014 | Science & Pseudoscience, Society & Culture, Technology & Futurism
I would say we should step into the shoes of a (hypothetical?) extra-terrestrial to know how they might feel about us humans. But we don’t know if they have shoes, or feet, or perhaps even feelings in the same sense we do. So let’s play Star Trek. What...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Jun 16, 2014 | Business & Economics, Philosophy & Ethics, Politics & Law, Society & Culture
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, December 12, 2013, as “Forced to bake a cake”} To some, it’s freedom of conscience. To me, it’s freedom of bigotry. But we agree that someone’s freedom was lost last Friday, at the hands of the...
