I recently noticed a trend on my Facebook news feed: uncomfortably cute memes shared from the page of David Wolfe. “Your eyes are useless when your mind is blind.” “An easy life has never produced a powerful mind.” Who is David Wolfe? On casual investigation I was aghast to ...read more

Everything you're about to read might be a waste of copy space. That's because it will either confirm what you already know to be 100% true or simply bounce off the titanium hull of your own ignorance, since it's doubtful that you or anyone else is still on-the-fence when it ...read more

Maybe if we're lucky Neil DeGrasse Tyson will be the new face of some kind of revolution within our culture. Maybe his willingness to take a stand in the name of logic and reason and his unwillingness to suffer the fools who believe otherwise -- coupled with his current pop ...read more

According to Wikipedia, a conspiracy theory is defined as "an explanatory proposition that accuses two or more persons, a group, or an organization of having caused or covered up, through secret planning and deliberate action, an illegal or harmful event or situation." To me ...read more

Both Jenny McCarthy and Kristin Cavallari have been in the news recently for their stance on vaccines, reigniting the tiresome debate over the risks posed by vaccinating your child. McCarthy was hilariously put down last week by Twitter users who answered her #Jennyasks ...read more

Over its seven-year-plus history, I can think of three things that I've written for my blog, Deus Ex Malcontent, that have practically earned me death threats. I'm exaggerating a little about that, but suffice it to say the three posts I'm talking about drew all kinds of fire ...read more