Skeptical Observations

How the saying “Everything happens for a reason” combines presumption with obtuseness. Last week, I posted an entry examining and de...

From “Skeptical Jew” to “Skeptical Observations.” I have to confess that I have always been somewhat uncomfortable with the title that ...

A clip from the video Dara Ó Briain Talks Funny , with a partial transcript. The clip embedded above is an excerpt from a video record...

The common saying “Everything happens for a reason” is neither true nor a truism, but a swindle in which the preposterous is peddled in the ...

Newt Gingrich on his dark past: “There’s no question that at times in my life, partially driven by how passionately I felt about this countr...

A new social-networking Web site adopts a tasteless and sophomoric name. I have just learned that some enterprising morons have produc...

And what hope is there for secular government when you’ve got Republicans? Rep. John Shimkus (R., Illino...

The statement “Judaism is a people, not (just) a religion” seems like an important truth, but it is not even logically coherent. “Jewry is a...