Wednesday Open Thread

It's Wednesday so let's get this open thread started. What's on your mind? Haiti has another big aftershock, magnitude 6.1. The most powerful aftershock yet struck Haiti on Wednesday, shaking…

Darwin Trumps You, Mr. Freshwater

Meet John Freshwater,  an eighth-grade school science teacher from Ohio who likes to play loose with the facts, use the Bible as a scientific resource, and, yes, torture children with…

Stars and Bars

Close to 150 years ago, the United States quelled a rebellion which cost the lives of 500,000 men and boys but which also led to the freedom of some 4,000,000…