Jack Salazar, the Jaded Skeptic is a...

Today is called by some Giving Tuesday, a counter to the consumerism, and just a reminder to invest in bettering the world around you. There...

Mark Twain  Today is the end of Banned Book Week , supported by the American Library Association . The idea of this week is to make your...

In considering CISPA in the last piece I mentioned SOPA, the last iteration of these efforts to broaden government access and control of per...

CISPA, or Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, is a bill that broadly expands the power government and business to share and use i...

We can loose sight of the people who are putting up the hard fights. People who stand up to authority and peer pressure in places where ther...

I have been tempted to talk about the, what to my surprise exists, War of Easter. But it is too silly (You can see it tore apart here and h...

Well, it's been awhile since Oscar Night '13, and I could have just not said anything and not completed that old saying about the ...

Last year had it's definite ups and downs. Your own monthage may vary. Still, at all times it is important to draw the positives that ca...

I enjoyed this piece talking about my we Liberals need Conservatives out there. Overall, I feel Liberals carry forward the better ide...

Are we as a country feeling particularly comfortable with bosses and executives dropping none to subtle hints that voting wrong will lead...

Let us talk about the Boy Scouts of America. They wave around the American flag. They have a America in their full name. They often operat...

Among the varying laws meant to protect or push religion are the blasphemy laws . It might sound quaint to you, but these are ever present...

AMERICAblog notes the changes to access that are coming to Australia. The government's $128.8 million Cyber Safety policy includes fo...

An interesting look from ThinkProgress to the plans of the telecoms to react to moves to defend access to the internet. Unsurprising, it ...

Maloney is a naturopath in Maine that PZ Myers has noted. Seems he is spouting a lot of crap, as a good quack will do.  When he was criti...

You may have heard of what happen with Amy Goodman, of Democracy Now, at the Canadian border. As she tried to cross over to Canada to speak...

Limbaugh loves the inflammatory comments. Like his latest, quipping that soldiers at West Point could detain Obama when he goes to speak n...