While reading the latest Christopher Hitchens piece on Slate, I stumbled on this article about Sabine Ehrenfeld, the actress who is the spokesperson on the Overstock.com commercials. If you check out item 5 in the list, you’ll note that Ms. Ehrenfeld is “proficient in basic tactical pistol skills.”
Most excellent! Perhaps when her contractual [...]
It’s Sunday evening and I’m marking time until the Academy Awards. Watching the awards show tonight is more out of inertia than anything else. I’ve seen hardly any movies this year - none of the Best Picture nominees except for The Aviator.
Before I became a parent, it was easy to see enough movies [...]
As I was driving home from work today, I tuned in Indiana University’s National Public Radio (NPR) affiliate, WFIU, to catch A Moment of Science. The show was entitled Small People and discussed the discovery of an extinct (approximately 13,000 years ago) branch of the genus homo known as homo floresiensis. These hominids [...]
I’ve titled this blog “The Hoosier Gadfly” because (1) I live in Southern Indiana and (2) I intend to persistently criticize irrational and dogmatic ideas, whatever their source.
I’m a skeptic and an agnostic, in the sense that I don’t operate on faith in anything – to convince me requires hard data.
The Gadfly’s Pledge:
“I promise that [...]