WASHINGTON -- Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) pledged during his run for office to be a veritable stick in the mud on issues of philosophical concern even if it meant agitating his fellow Congressional Republicans. Now, as the Senate rushes against the clock to pass an extension of the USA Patriot Act, he's living up to his word.
New Orleans – With Oprah’s legendary talk-show career ending today, we should celebrate her unparalleled influence as a healer, visionary, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. Well, I would like to bestow upon Oprah a new distinction: Oprah the existentialist.
Existentialist? Huh?
For many of you, the word existentialist conjures up a creepy...
You may think you understand how the Patriot Act allows the government to spy on its citizens. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) says it’s worse than you’ve heard.
Congress is set to reauthorize three controversial provisions of the surveillance law as early as Thursday. But Wyden says that what Congress will renew is a mere fig leaf for a far...
All animals face the challenge of deciding which chemicals in the environment are useful and which are harmful. A new study greatly improves our understanding of how animals sense an important class of potentially harmful chemicals: weak acids. The study appears online on May 16 in the Journal of General Physiology.
Weak acids like...
What a goddamn degenerate. If I were a black nationalist, I'd look no further than Steven Tyler for a perfect "white caveman" sort of avatar. Talk about a missing link...
And this is the last trashy UK tabloid link for a while, I promise.
American Idol judge Steven Tyler 'snorted cocaine at teen girlfriend's hospital bedside as she had an...
