My partner and I were on vacation in Germany when news broke that Minnesota Vikings football player Adrian Peterson had been charged with child abuse for severely whipping his four-year-old son. We had by that... Read More

Last week, celebrity news site TMZ released the horrifying and graphic video of Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice punching his then fiancé (now wife) Janay Palmer in the face and knocking her to the... Read More

Last week the American Humanist Association launched its Don’t Say the Pledge campaign, encouraging Americans to sit out the Pledge of Allegiance when it’s said in schools and government meetings in order to draw attention... Read More

The shooting of Michael Brown by police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, on August 9 sparked enormous controversy on multiple levels. As evidenced by yesterday’s arrest of thirty-five people who were trying to block... Read More

There’s a wonderful scene in the beginning of the film Dawn of the Planet of the Apes in which a large group of apes ambushes a herd of elk. The result is enough food for... Read More

I have a dear friend whose mother was diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) about a year ago. It’s a tragic disease, and one that has existed for a long time in relative obscurity compared... Read More

Recently, a U.S. citizen by the name of Douglas McArthur McCain was killed in Syria while fighting on behalf of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), also known as the Islamic State... Read More