Flametoad

In which I express my dismay over the name-calling related to the new Arizona illegal immigration law and offer some questions intended to provoke meaningful dialog.

America, warts and all, is still the greatest place on Earth to live. Our freedoms are unparalleled, including the freedom to be an ass. Fortunately we still have the freedom to be great, as well. This video captures both at once.

The news outlets representing both ends of the political spectrum have been generating a lot of buzz over politics playing out in Texas curriculum meetings. The curriculum in Texas is important because we are one of the country’s biggest customers of textbook publishers. As goes Texas, so goes the country. The funny thing is that [...]

Here we are on the last day of 2009. We made it! Congratulations. After reading a few essays titled “The 10 Best Movies of the Decade” and so on, I thought it might be fun to write my own review of the decade. It’s actually a much more mind-bending task than I first gave it [...]

Did you know that there’s a hexagon on Saturn’s north pole? No kidding! I love this quote: “Now that we can see undulations and circular features instead of blobs in the hexagon, we can start trying to solve some of the unanswered questions about one of the most bizarre things we’ve ever seen in the [...]