Legally Accidental
2013-07-14 – Not guilty. The George Zimmerman verdict is being ballyhooed as vindication of Zimmerman’s claim of self-defense. But that’s not how the law works when a defendant wins. Defendants […]
Driverless Harleys
2013-07-10 – There’s been a lot of news lately about driverless cars. Here’s a video about the Google driverless car. Google’s system has logged hundreds of thousands of miles without an […]
Book Doctors
2013-07-09 – After pitching my book at the Printers Row Lit Fest last month, I arranged a 45 minute consultation with organizers of Lit Fest Pitchapalooza, the Book Doctors. The […]
Evil Cohort
2013-07-07 – Think about cave people. Can you imagine cave people rounding up 30 11-year-olds and forcing them to sit in rows for six hours a day with only one […]
90 More Shopping Days
2013-07-03 – Chicago used to have its big fireworks on this day. I used to go every year. Eventually, the event was combined with the Taste of Chicago and […]
Morsi More Sarah
2013-07-01 – What, if anything, do you know about the protests in Egypt that we see daily? I took a close look at a couple of these stories today […]
Corporate Marriage
2013-06-30 – One of the first things that popped into my inbox after the Supreme Court decisions on gay marriage was a warning that polygamy could be legalized next. I’m […]
There’s an App for That
2013-06-21 – My wife must have an app to detect when I am in the bathroom. That’s when she calls me. And it’s not just any bathroom. She calls me […]
Fixing the World
2013-06-20 – I’ll let creationists and evolutionist debate Chapter 1 of the Book of Genesis. Today, I want to take on Chapter 2. Here’s the language I want to dispute: […]
Shut Up and Do Your Work!
2013-06-17 – George Will once said “Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.” Science is now looking into the problem of committee […]
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