Orange Coyote

I tweaked the lyrics to a folk tune on behalf of California ballot proposition 64 (to end state laws banning marijuana):  #CA64 (to t...

I wrote two litttle ditties on behalf of my candidate of choice this year.  Here they are. Gary Johnson (to the tune of Frere Jacques ):...

--> In his March 12, New York Times op-ed, literary theorist Stanley Fish offered a very pure example of the Epstein-Sowell-Krautham...

Dear Editor: Bruce Ackerman makes a compelling case that the Vice-presidency is a “design flaw” in the constitutional order created by our f...

Dear Editor: In Lloyd Grove’s article on gossip columns (Oct. 15, 2006, p. M3), he stressed the need to “nail down” a story before publi...

I recently had an on-line discussion with a 9/11 conspiracy theorist . This was obviously not a scientific survey of conspiracy believers, b...

Sam Harris wrote a brilliant op-ed piece in last week's L.A. Times, but he engages in a bit of lazy moral equivalence when he writes: I...

Charles Krauthammer today calls attention to the irony of saying "Don't call us violent or we'll attack you." This is tr...

This post should start a Technorati Profile for this blog. But also note the following amusing (but meaningless) rating for this blog:

Phil Molé (writing in eSkeptic ) does a very nice job explaining why there is NO evidence supporting the 9/11 conspiracy theories. He then g...

What is the appeal of conspiracy theories? The terrorist attacks of 9/11, and the assassination of John F. Kennedy have several things in co...