Month: February 2010
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A Response by Swingers
Note: This response was written by the couple who were so kind to answer the questions for “An Interview with Swingers” and it is a response to my recent essay “Swinging: A Different Perspective.” They are writing under the pseudonyms Wendy and Stan to protect their anonymity. ~ J.S. ———– I am the female half…
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More Evidence that “Abstinence Only” Education is a Failure
by Jason Stotts The Guttmacher Institute has recently released a report that shows that absolute failure of “abstinence-only” (i.e. religious) sex education. The report is “Following Decade-Long Decline, U.S. Teen Pregnancy Rate Increases as Both Births and Abortions Rise.” For the first time in more than a decade, the nation’s teen pregnancy rate rose 3% in…
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Dr. Tiller Was Murdered
by Jason Stotts Last May, Dr. George Tiller was gunned down by a religious fanatic in a church. The fanatic’s name was Scott Roeder and he defended his actions by saying that he was justified in the killing because Dr. Tiller was an abortion doctor who was “murdering unborn children” who could not defend themselves.…
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Informal Fallacies
by Jason Stotts One of the best ways to improve the clarity of your thinking and arguing is to learn the informal fallacies. A fallacy is an error of reasoning whereby your conclusion does not follow from your premises. Importantly, it is not that the content of the premise is false (that is its own…
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French to British: Really? You Couldn’t Find the G-Spot?
by Jason Stotts In response to a group of British researchers publishing a study claiming that the g-spot does not exist (because their subjects didn’t self-report they had one), France’s best known gynecologist Sylvain Mimoun have issued a statement that “The English study is barking up the wrong tree.” (Telegraph) Leave it to the French…
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Maybe Our Country Will be Free After All
by Jason Stotts While states such as Massachusetts already have socialized medicine and states like California are trying to pass it, I’m encouraged to see that some states are taking a principled approach based on individual rights and are moving to prevent socialized healthcare from ever entering their states. The recent article in Business Week…
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Validation
by Jason Stotts Validation is a very interesting little movie about how all some people need in their lives is a little sincere validation to turn their day around. In fact, maybe the entire world would be better with more sincerity and less sarcasm. Watch the entire movie: it’s worth it.