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Will These Storms Corrupt the Election Results?

  • October 8, 2024
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There hasn’t been an election in my lifetime when rumors (or more than rumors) swirled around in the media about potential election fraud happening in various ways. And to be clear, there is always some amount of that going on. But such talk has significantly ramped up in volume since the disputes over the handling […]

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TikTok Gets Sued for Harming Children’s Mental Health

  • October 8, 2024
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TikTok is already fighting for its life in America. Congress passed and President Biden signed a law which requires the Chinese company to either sell its US operation or be banned by January. The company is still fighting that in court. Now TikTok has been sued by a group of 13 states who allege the […]

Did Harris Fangirls on The View Damage Her Chances With a Simple Question?

  • October 8, 2024
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One of the major risks with a politician avoiding media appearances is that they can get so out of practice that even a simple question can trip them up. Couple that with a friendly media personality looking to help out their candidate with softball questions, and you have a recipe for what happened on Tuesday’s […]

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NY Times Opinion: We Should Abandon the Idea of Masculinity

  • October 8, 2024
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The author of this opinion piece is a British writer who wrote a book about raising boys. The thrust of her argument is that it’s not enough to get away from “toxic masculinity” which she associated with traditional, right-leaning people. She argues we should probably also get away from the “positive masculinity” that some on […]

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Don’t Expect Human Life Expectancy to Grow Much More

  • October 8, 2024
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We’ve had plenty of reasons to discuss decreasing birth rates and declining population trends recently, particularly among more westernized and industrialized nations. Several plausible explanations have been offered, including a reluctance among younger generations to take on the responsibilities of parenthood or simply adulthood in that fashion. Some societies such as China even mandated radically […]