Understanding commodities schemes with help from Joseph, Pharaoh, Louis and Billy Ray. Stevie Wonder's Florida boycott gets more support from more big names. Lumosity promises to do for your brain what Shape Ups promised to do for your calves. Ezekiel says one thing, Pat Robertson says the opposite -- who are you going to trust? Some of the "Ugliest Churches in the World" are rather beautiful. Read more

"Again, keep your focus there — on you and on your perceived inconvenience. And whatever you do, don’t allow that braille lettering to serve as a reminder that YOU can see while others can’t. That way lies the enemy — gratitude, empathy, and their bastard child, generosity." Read more

Gilberton, Pa., is a five-minute drive from Shenandoah, a town still reeling from the 2009 arrest of four high school students who beat a man to death -- a crime that town's police chief eventually went to prison for attempting to cover up. Having witnessed such a thing so close to home, you'd think that Gilberton's mayor and school board president would be concerned over the erratic behavior, brutish ignorance and violent rhetoric of Gilberton police "chief" Mark Kessler. But they're not. Read more

Texas, Texas everywhere. Dealing with mosquitoes. Alexander Hamilton and The Disagreeable Animadversions would be a great band name. Casting call for Left Behind re-boot. How not to run for governor. Payday loans at 5,800-percent interest are just peachy with Christian athletes. Robert George lowers standard for "public intellectual" yet another notch. Read more

One could argue that this intrusive corporate governance of private life is un-American. But then I suppose one could also argue that the voluntary surrender of personal freedom in the hopes of attaining higher “property values” is quintessentially American. Read more

Aussies can overcome anything with duct tape. Black motorist charged with DUI after blowing a 0.00 on a Breathalyzer. A horrifyingly real ideology is expressed in a quote, but is the quote real too? Why the Chamber of Commerce and most of corporate America are Commie-pinko socialists. Commonweal writer finally wakes up to the facts about the facts in David Brooks' columns. Two looks at the economics of American slavery. Conservapedia on The Long March of the Koalas. Read more

Millions of rhythm-method cycles per year globally depend for their success on massive embryonic death. Even a policy of practicing condom usage and having an abortion in case of failure would cause fewer embryonic deaths than the rhythm method. Read more

Anger has to do with the intolerable difference between what is and what ought to be, which is to say, with injustice. Offendedness has to do with my own discomfort with the difference between how I feel and how I'd prefer to feel. Read more