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Photograph: Imaginechina/Rex Shutterstock Yep. Just do away with the whole stupid concept. That's the kinda-serious proposal of Zach Stafford in his Guardian op-ed published today. Isn't it a tempting concept to explore? All the trouble and violence caused by, at its root, male insecurity... gone!…

Tuesday's Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal "Safety" is always a trade-off. 9/11 and the totalitarian attitudes that enabled it and are enabled by it have convinced the average American that safety has absolute value. It doesn't. It always costs something: money, convenience, productivity, or as here,…

"Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made." --Though often attributed to Bismarck, this was actually penned by John Godfrey Saxe in 1869.* USA Today just published a story about hot dogs, which I do enjoy and…

Saturday, Jill and I went to farm a very small Level 8 farm, in a very small town. A town so small that what you see here is its law enforcement headquarters. We parked where we took this picture and farmed the three portals we…

Quite a few, it turns out. Look how the Charisma News site reported that one school district in Illinois is now allowing trans* kids to use the correct locker rooms. (Sorry, no links for evil, or idiocy, or the convergence of the two.) For a…