It’s the beginning of April, and that means I just finished celebrating New Year’s Eve, and will soon begin shopping for Valentine’s gifts. In a month or two, I may even get around to toasting St. Patrick. It’s not procrastination, it’s just that I’m a Pennsylvanian, and the state encourages me ...

Feb 1, 2012: SumOfUs posts a popular image used by media outlets today to reflect the worker conditions at Chinese "sweatshops." "Ethical capitalism" is a fantasy embraced and fetishized by the liberal/professional left.     New Delusion for 2012: SumOfUs ...Like all good Imperialists, the Philanthropoids set themselves the task of creating and training an international ...

On its web site, the Occupation Party calls itself "a new third party that stands in solidarity with the populist message of Occupy Wall Street." The party condemns the violence of what it terms a "small minority" of protesters at places like Occupy Oakland. It wants to Occupy Congress, and to that ...

There will be some nomenclature, some rhetorical subdivision, some dreaded categorization and definition in what follows. Unless you've never had good sex, you’ll agree that sometimes, drawing lines is good. Lines like "good sex" and "bad sex." I had just finished giving the Duchess of Hardcore Activists the drilling she’d asked ...

Worship of Eostre Poetry throws a seductive cloak over me as I drive, nearly forcing me to the side of the road to describe cloud canoes purple as a bruise, rowing through gift tissue mist hovering over a virgin birch seduced by the scent of raw, thawing earth into donning her bridal veil and peignoir edged with peeping, limey leaflings the words of birds warbling a wedding march as ...

There's no question that Mormonism was racist. Here's the argument: 1. The LDS Church denied the priesthood to blacks. 2. The priesthood is positively valuable (from the Mormon perspective). 3. The LDS Church denied something of value to a group of people based on their skin color. 4. To deny something of value ...

Part 3 of 3     The history of energy exploration, mining, and delivery is best understood in a range from benevolent exploitation to worker and public oppression. A company comes into an area, leases land in rural and agricultural areas for mineral rights, increases employment, usually in a depressed economy, strips the ...

So let me get this straight. First, the banks make loads of bad mortgages. Then, the government bails them out. Fannie and Freddie end up with tons of foreclosures on their books, and now those banks that started the mess get to cash-in on Fannie and Freddie’s need to dump ...

Part 2 of 3 The natural gas industry defends hydraulic fracturing, better known as fracking, as safe and efficient. Thomas J. Pyle, president of the Institute for Energy Research, a pro-industry non-profit organization, claims fracking has been “a widely deployed as safe extraction technique,” dating back to 1949. What he doesn’t say is ...

  A new Pennsylvania law endangers public health by forbidding health care professionals from sharing information they learn about certain chemicals and procedures used in high volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing. The procedure is commonly known as fracking. Fracking is the controversial method of forcing water, gases, and chemicals at tremendous pressure of up to ...