I don't have much to say on this topic, but I cannot understand why the selling of body parts, say, kidneys, should be illegal ( Read more... )

Poll Incest or OK?( Read more... )

Last night, I began co-teaching a course on chemistry for science teachers. The other teacher showed a video about the American science education system and problems with it. Our students were also given a test on common chemistry misconceptions. I was amazed at how poorly both the ones interviewed in the video -- Harvard graduates, even -- and ( Read more... )

I do not smoke, but I have no problems if other people want to. I think that smoking should be prohibited in public places, because it is harmful to other people, but if an individual wants to smoke, let him or her ( Read more... )

Let this count for last Friday's entry....

I tend to hate politics, but I distinguish this word in its modern usage from political science, which I can sometimes enjoy.

I have written on my extreme dislike of the current American two-party system, feeling that it goes against the ideas of the Founding Father's and amounts to constant gridlock.[1 ( Read more... )

I might as well go on to the topic for which libertarians may well be most famous -- legalization of drugs. Most libertarians are for the legalization of drugs, whatever they are, as long as they do not harm anyone else. The view is that, if it does not harm anyone else, people in a free society should have the right to do whatever they want. This ( Read more... )

I figured I'd throw out another bound-to-be-controversial opinion of mine ( Read more... )

continuing a trend of both late and John Stossel-related entries ( Read more... )

Another political entry from the boy who hates modern politics.

But really, the deal is that I hate current political methods -- i.e. deceit, buying the crowds, etc,. I like to think about true political "science" as in theoretical ways of doing things ( Read more... )