Rules Are for Schmucks: Paid to Discriminate
Short of cash? Here’s a quick way to earn $25,000 bucks, with no heavy lifting required. In fact, no effort at all is required—just the opposite. What you need to do is refuse to work... Read More
Rules Are for Schmucks: That Giant Sucking Sound
Remember Ross Perot? He’s the billionaire who ran for president back in 1992. But he didn’t have the Russians on his side, and he didn’t win. Anyway, he’s remembered for his prediction of a “giant... Read More
Rules Are for Schmucks: Church-State Separation Advancing in Norway and India
Humanists who expect to find Inauguration Day depressing may take some solace from events outside America’s borders. Two nations striding toward greater separation of church and state are profiled below. Norway Lutheranism has been the... Read More
Rules Are for Schmucks: Kerry Nails It
I’ve been a fan of John Kerry for a long time now, ever since I happened to be in the Senate hearing room in 1971 when he delivered his impassioned plea on behalf of the... Read More
Rules Are for Schmucks: A Recipe for Trump Lemonade
“When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.” That’s easier said than done, especially when the lemon is a Donald Trump presidency. Marching in the street, spending millions of dollars on recounts, angrily confronting Trump supporters,... Read More
Rules Are for Schmucks: Religion, Land, and Anarchy
“Off the charts unbelievable”—so ran the headline about the acquittal of seven protesters who had occupied the Malheur Wildlife Refuge in Oregon earlier this year. It wasn’t all that unbelievable, though, once you realize that... Read More
Rules Are for Schmucks: A Fleeting Victory for Chickens
Last fall I wrote a piece about “Religion and the Torture of Animals,” describing, among other things, the unsuccessful efforts of animal welfare advocates to end the medieval Jewish ritual of Kaporot. This involves having... Read More