Here's some more good stuff from the "academy" to get 2016 really rolling. It concerns Cecil Rhodes, the empire builder who left an Oxford University college more than 50 ...
I rarely show much interest in Canadian politics. Truth be told, I think of Canadians as the friendly, quiet neighbors who keep their front lawn neatly manicured and their ...
With that kumbayah moment at the Capitol in South Carolina, when the Battle Flag of the Confederacy was lowered forever to the cheers and tears of all, a purgation of the ...
Black people don"t drink coffee. There"I"ve said it. I"m generalizing, of course. Yes, I realize you have a black friend who drinks a lot of coffee. You"ve ...
Although it was released over three years ago, there were audible sounds of indigestion online recently at the discovery of a textbook called Is Everyone Really Equal?: An ...
Hey LG, it's time to drop the BT. It's also time to drop any other letters that are straggling to join that ever-expanding abbreviation. They"re holding you down. In recent ...
Asexuality: It's not just for plants anymore. Nay, it is now a designated sexual identity for humans who aren"t horny. But it is much more than merely an individual identity. ...
Last Friday proved a more eventful one than usual in New Zealand: on top of the usual weekend hustle, the Kiwi nation hosted the wedding of one Travis McIntosh to his partner, ...
The Germans may or may not have preferred to march in the shade, but the French proclivity for lolling topless in the sun is no chauvinistic joke. Right after the first female ...
My direct relative fought with the loyalists during the American Revolution. He was a traitor to the cause of secession from the Crown. He fought for the British as a Lieutenant ...
If you"re generally a busy bumblebee like I am, you don"t have time to sit around all day socially constructing things. Thus, I am so glad that there are volunteers who do ...
This week, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office cancelled six patents associated with embattled football team the Washington Redskins. The patent office found in favor of five ...
There was a time"or so I"m told, anyway; it was long before my day"when college kids thumbed their noses at authority, fiercely defended the freedom to openly exchange ...
Watch out, codgers, curmudgeons and crackpots: Michelle Obama is enlisting your kids to monitor your thoughts. In a recent speech before five Topeka, KS graduating classes, Mrs. ...
Recruitment software start-up Entelo just released a brave new product: Diversity. This "proprietary algorithm" scours the Internet to determine the sex and ethnicity of ...