By Eric Zanzucchi (@ericzanzucchi) At a press conference Monday morning sanctions were handed down to Penn State in the wake of the Sandusky scandal. I thought they were going to be severe and indeed they […]
American Gerontocracy
By K. David Du Nationsmith writer K. David Du analyzes interesting age trends amongst the world’s political elites and their countries’ population median and the sharper differences between the emerging world and the industrialized one. […]
Aftermath of a Tragedy: Trying to Rationalize the Irrational
By Michael Baker Over at The Big Think, Will Wilkinson wonders why we don’t see more people committing the types of atrocities that occurred in Aurora, Colorado last week. He points out that as a […]
BLAMEAPALOOZA!
By Eric Zanzucchi (@ericzanzucchi) Mark Emmert, the president of the NCAA, has a press conference scheduled for Monday morning to announce the sanctions to be carried out against Penn State. It is being reported that […]
Do We Care More About Victims Who Like Batman?
By Michael Baker I was eating lunch in a taco shop yesterday and overheard a conversation between two twenty-something friends. “You hear about that dude in Colorado?” one asked. “Yeah,” chimed in his female counterpart, […]
The Best of Both Worlds
By Eric Zanzucchi (@ericzanzucchi) A huge debate has erupted over whether or not the Joe Paterno statue should be left up at Penn State. Push comes to shove I really don’t care what they do. […]
Why Swing Voters Don’t Matter
By Michael Baker Here’s how most people think about winning a presidential election in our two-party system: Forty percent of voters will always vote for a Democrat (these numbers are purely illustrative). Forty percent will […]
Finally a Teenager Who Shows a Little Ambition
By Eric Zanzucchi (@ericzanzucchi) Parents are always telling their kids that they need an after school activity and finally when one finds one the sheriff’s office has to get involved. An unnamed 17 year old […]
Are You Responsible for Your Thoughts?
By Michael Baker A new idea has popped up in our criminal justice system – that a criminal defendant should be allowed to present evidence of his neurological state in order to prove that he’s […]
Should Familial DNA Testing Be Allowed?
By Eric Zanzucchi (@ericzanzucchi) DNA databases have been a great investigative tool for crime solving over the past twenty years. Most states have their own databases, but the FBI developed CODIS to serve as the […]
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