What should we do about all the pit bulls?
Another horrific story, all too familiar: Pack of pit bulls brutally attack a man and his elderly mother near their home in Modesto. Cops arrive, are forced to kill all four dogs as the couple is...
View ArticleBro! Want to TRIPLE your odds of getting her number? Get a dog
Because it means you can take care of something. Because it means you’re not completely selfish. Because it means you might love something other than yourself. Because it shows you can take a little...
View ArticleA lion is not a chicken: Essential distinctions for the perplexed
One of my favorite snarling right-wing attacks, whenever I criticize Christianity as a whole or the Catholic church specifically – which is frequently, on both counts, for all manner of homophobia,...
View ArticleThe silence of the birds: When nature gets quiet, be very afraid
Brutal wildfire images too much to bear? Fatigued by non-stop news of extreme weather, record-low snowpack, emaciated polar bears, unprecedented this and fast-receding that, a natural world that...
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