Well, as he promised on Real Time with Bill Maher, Congressman Frank has introduced a bill to decriminalize small amounts of marijuana. If you support the cause, head over to the Marijuana Policy Project and use their handy system to let your representatives know!
“The Personal Use of Marijuana by Responsible Adults Act of 2008,” introduced […]

Of course, no one has any idea how cherry-picked these answers are.
Fascinating. Notice how these people care just as much about the intent of the woman as they do about the death of the fetus. What a tragic issue- you can almost see a path to unity, but the act itself is so divisive that […]

Great article in the Times about how our brains are hard-wired, not just for retaliation against injury, but for disproportionate retaliation. Regarding a psychological experiment where test subjects were instructed to lightly push each other over and over again with equal force:
What began as a game of soft touches quickly became a game of moderate […]

I just got back from seeing Al Gore’s new movie about global warming, An Inconvenient Truth (check out the trailer). On the way back, my roomates and I were discussing how excellent it was; the film is enormously informative and persuasive, but it is also very entertaining, which is saying a lot when you consider […]