I hate spammers. I despise their penis-enlarging, breast-firming, diet-accelerating claptrap that overloads my email inbox. These cankers of electronic communications pollute the Internet with their effluvia. But even more than I hate spammers, I...

Is the Internet killing attention spans? The reason I ask is, despite not being able to find a good WordPress statistics plugin that will allow me to verify my suspicion without too much effort on my part, I get the impression that the number of...

In the exceedingly unlikely event that there is a god, why couldnt He, She or It have done a better job designing our brains? Why couldnt the alleged deity have given us brains that were less inclined or, better yet, not at all inclined toward...

NASA has photographic evidence that mud might have flowed very recently on Mars. And when I say very recently, Im not talking about a geological timescale. It might have happened just a few years ago. If this is true, it is almost certainly also true...

Im a little less than two months shy of my 57th birthday. Of course, I cant predict when Im going to die, but barring a medical miracle, Im several years closer to my death than to my birth. As a result of my advancing age coupled with a bad case of...