The next time someone tells you a smaller government is better than a bigger one, you can direct them to the July 2013 issue of Scientific American, which includes an article about the town of West Texas where a fertilizer plant exploded damaging 150 buildings and killing 15 people. The company was storing 1300x the amount of ammonium nitrate to ( Read more... )

Sometimes I feel like the entire world is running an elaborate scam on me. I had that feeling the few times I’ve met the manager at my new job. She looks at me like she’s calculating the maximum amount of work she can get out of me for the least amount money. But I suppose that is normal ( Read more... )

The senior personal trainer at my gym cheesed me off. I busted my butt for forty minutes doing super sets of the power lifts, dips, and pull ups, and then I’m walking out tired and sweaty and feeling good about it, then he looks at his watch and says, “Hey, only forty minutes ( Read more... )

People always give me this perplexed or even blankly dumbfounded look when I turn down money ( Read more... )

Modernism and the Culture of Market Society by John Xiros Cooper has completely blown my mind.  I wish I'd written it.  But the first thing you have to do to understand this short, dense book is clear your mind of right and left, conservative and liberal.

Once upon a time, Europeans were Christians, and we meant it. Theologians dominated ( Read more... )