Halfway There

How golden is your rectangle? Catholic adolescents in the United States typically go through the rite of confirmation in their early teens. ...

A back door to science truthiness? The July 2009 issue of Acts & Facts from the Institute for Creation Research provides a heaping help...

Uh ... line ? She possessed the serenity of the clueless. Nothing seemed to disturb her as she sat immersed in obliviousness in my statistic...

A far, far better office Professor Porfirio Gigante was preparing to throw his weight around. He carried a lot of it, both figuratively and...

But will the students? Professor Porfirio Gigante was accustomed to doing things his own way . As the department's senior faculty member...

Seeing right through it in SF Did you make it to last weekend's crystal fair at San Francisco's Fort Mason? I didn't, but Steve ...

Would you like a splash of bigotry with that? When I was a bored youngster, tagging along in my mother's wake on shopping trips, I used ...

Slouching toward equality You remember Robert Bork , don't you? Before he turned into a verb, Judge Bork was a member of the bench for t...

The old wives strike again The speed of light allegedly limits the rate of transmission of information. When it comes to bad news in my fami...

I know you are, but what am I? Yes, we live in entertaining times. The Republicans wallow in the Slough of Despond (taking such comfort as t...

The problem of going solo “Excuse me, but how are you doing that?” “Doing what?” I looked up from the notebook where I had been scrawling th...

One small gigantic sacrifice Mine is not a military family. Very few of us are veterans. World War II broke out ten years after my paternal ...

Traditional last-minute crash landings After a couple of decades of full-time teaching, I'm seldom surprised by what happens at the en...

First fruits of creationist truce Creation Ministries International of Australia agreed last month to bury the hatchet in its years-long di...

Says You in San Francisco Arnie Reisman was concerned. He called out to the moderator. “Richard, we may have a problem with this word!” Ric...