by Barry Fagin | Jan 31, 2011 | Education, Philosophy & Ethics, Politics & Law, Psychology, Society & Culture
{Originally published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, 12-29-05} The opera is over; the fat evolutionary biologist has sung. Intelligent design in public schools is dead. The issue will never get to the Supreme Court, because there’s nothing left to decide. The...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Jan 27, 2011 | Business & Economics, Politics & Law, Society & Culture, Technology & Futurism
Something amazing happened. Maybe you missed it. After technology incrementally changed the world from the horse and buggy to the [[Space Shuttle]], we missed something far more incredible. It isn’t about some under-reported discovery (think mapping the Human...
by Barry Fagin | Jan 17, 2011 | Religion & Spirituality, Science & Pseudoscience, Society & Culture, Technology & Futurism
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, November 2005} [[Idiot|Pat Robertson]] is an idiot. What else can you say about a man who, just a few days ago, he did at apocalyptic events for a small town in Pennsylvania when an election didn’t go his way?...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Jan 13, 2011 | Business & Economics, Politics & Law, Society & Culture
It’s such a bizarre question, one I never thought to ask … until now. Does the Press really want freedom? By freedom, I mean more than Freedom of the Press, but the larger scope of Freedom of Speech. After all, the hierarchical lines between them have...
by Barry Fagin | Jan 10, 2011 | Psychology, Religion & Spirituality, Science & Pseudoscience, Society & Culture
{2005} “The Exorcism of Emily Rose” opened in theaters last week. It had a $30 million weekend, more than triple its closest competitor. Because a simple horror film couldn’t do that kind of box office, “Emily Rose” was “based on a true story”. That story, however,...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Jan 6, 2011 | Education, Philosophy & Ethics, Society & Culture
This blog may not be without import. The first article ever published here in November 2009 (on the birthday of Socrates) told the tale of my Alma Mater’s reclassification of all liberal arts degrees as “various” in their alumni publication. The...