I made a previous post making the case for legalizing marijuana, but I’ll go one big step further and say that all recreational drugs should be legal to use. Before that, though, I want to clarify that I don’t use any recreational drugs, and generally disapprove of their use (especially the addictive drugs). Though a [...]
I’ve been playing with Google+ since I got an invite a few days ago. My first impression was that it was a much simpler version of Facebook with a few major differences. The most obvious is the procedure for adding people to your network, which involves circles. Read their site for details about all the [...]
…is that they help people forget about the terrible diseases they prevent. Some people have an unfounded fear of the vaccines that outweighs their fear of the diseases. This is illogical and borders on insanity. All of these diseases have a risk of death, while the vaccines have a risk of minor adverse reactions like [...]
Don’t taze my junk, bro? What’s with this sudden uproar about airport security recently? Every day I see multiple articles and stories about the terrible things the TSA is doing to travelers in the name of security. Take away all the weighted words and claims of constitutional rights being violated, and these stories simply come [...]
Internet piracy has been a huge problem ever since residential connections were fast enough to make it practical. Now it is trivial to download practically any commercial content for free, whether it’s music, movies, or software. Whether or not someone pirates now comes down to a moral issue. One of the most common rationalizations for [...]
Here in California, one of the popular topics is immigration and protecting our borders. People are always talking about how to deal with illegal immigration. However, I find the concept of national borders flawed. When land is originally purchased or granted, it makes sense because it comes from the government. What doesn’t have a solid [...]
Why? People ask this simple question every day, but they can never get the real answer. You can follow the chain of causality until you reach a dead end, where pure randomness takes effect. At this point, there is no reason. This is also where the Universe is open to interpretation. So what are the [...]
I’ve never really paid too much attention to politics. I’ve always found it boring and irrelevant to my life. It seems to always come down to arguing about who is right and who is wrong on questions that have no right answer. Since there is no right answer, people tend to pick a side arbitrarily [...]
Sometimes I stop to think about the universe as we know it. What is it and what does it mean? The reality is that no one can possibly claim to know the answer. We can only see what we see, and even then we may not know what we are seeing. Basically, we will never [...]
As of January 1st, the use of trans fats by restaurants will be banned in California. That’s right, restaurants are being forced to change their long established ingredients. Most have already made the move to alternative oils, so the only real difference is that it’s official now. Trans fats are a byproduct of hydrogenation, which [...]