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Here's Fauci being interviewed on MSNBC as part of his book promotion tour (see below). He's asked about the lab leak conspiracy the...

With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone. Oscar Wilde Like many baby boomers, I sometimes forget people's names and other ...

The CBC poll-tracker website tracks a number of public opinion polls and calculates a weighted average. The latest numbers have the Liberal...

The first video was posted to YouTube on April 23, 2005 [see YouTube ]. I took this photo (right) a few years ago near my daughter's pla...

Last week I commented on whether bigots should be given permission to discriminate against gays just because the bigots belong to a religion...

There's a little kerfluffle in the blogosphere because an anonymous blogger has been outed. Michael Eisen posted an interesting comment ...

The Pet Sounds album by The Beach Boys was released in 1966. The album ranks in the top ten of almost everyone's list of best albums (...

Is it true that the music of the Baby Boomers is a whole lot better than the music of Generation-X or the Millennials (Generation-Y)? Of cou...

This list is biased toward Americans and Englishmen. I'm sure there are many others who deserve to be in the top 25. There are other pro...

According to Careercast.com , I have the least stressful job of all jobs. 1 Here's how it's reported in Forbes magazine by web sta...

The man who is advocating gun culture is Louie Gohmert , a Republican member of the United States Congress representing the 1st Congressiona...

I thought that people like Chuck Norris were big fans of the idea that America is the greatest country in the world. Apparently I was wrong....

  Until a few minutes ago I had never heard of "redshirting" although I was familiar with the concept. Some parents want to hold t...

  Most civilized, democratic countries have abolished capital punishment . This is especially true of those countries with a Christian tradi...

PZ Myers on Salon reviews a book that I'm never going to read [ David Brooks' dream world for the trust-fund set ]. Unfortunately h...

  This video is making the rounds. I'm including it here because so many people have been discussing "civility" and "poli...

  John Lennon died on Dec. 8, 1980 when he was shot four times in the back by Mark David Chapman. His ashes were scattered by Yoko Ono in C...

  I don't watch Bill O'Reilly's show very often so I missed this segment. I find it extremely interesting that a major televisio...

  Remote Area Medical (RAM) is a group of doctors, optometrists, dentists, nurses etc. who donate their time to setting up free temporary c...

  You just can't make this stuff up, ... oh, wait a minute, it's Fox News. Carry on. [Hat Tip: Pharyngula