Meant to get to this earlier last week but had a stumble of writer’s block. If there’s one utterly important thing to learn from your four-ish years of college, it’s this: Bitches Be Crazy. Least that’s the takeaway from a recent satire – and I use that word as loosely as the last leaf on [...]
Do you know what you call it when you look at a room or social gathering and notice the one young Hispanic man there? Personally, I call it Monday. Or Tuesday. Or Wednesda– you get the point. In no simpler terms, I’m the token. In high school, in college, in my relationships, and in nearly [...]
Apparently this is ‘Shamelessly Exploitative Journalism’ week. That right there was the original April 29th headline of Ohio paper,The Plain Dealer, describing the likely murder of a 20-year-old transgendered woman named Cemia Dove in Olmsted Township. Not that you’d be able to guess that, seeing as the writer, John Caniglia, originally stopped every other sentence [...]
I gotta admit, sometimes I’m a bit thankful for the loud blaring moments of racial discrimination in our culture. Those inescapable bits of disgust at the perceived subhumans of the day that can’t help but bubble to the surface, despite all the myriad of ways we’ve evolved to avoid having the R word being lobbed [...]
Some people often talk of disagreements needing to hold an intellectual purity devoid of emotion and steeped in reason. ‘Some’ almost always meaning those whose personal interests aren’t being bargained over by others. For them, it’s only acceptable to hash out differences with as calm a tone and as civil a posture, no matter what [...]
In case you weren’t aware of this – and you should be (it trended on Twitter) – QED just happened again. Last year’s convention gave birth to this site, and I’m glad to have gone again; it isn’t often that as Brits, the world is jealous of our skeptical meet-ups and not vice versa. With [...]
As a former Catholic, I’m never astounded by the reluctance some of my fellow ex-Catholics have towards condemning the religion entirely. There is a beauty in the ritual; the calming words of a Father as he recites from the Gospel, the mediation of kneeling onto the pews (True story, they’re called kneelers!). God is comforting. [...]
I’m sitting in a cubicle, anxiously waiting for the next call to start. The software automatically disconnects from the previous number, a man who, though I can’t know for sure, enjoyed hanging up after his terse ‘No’. I’m inside the SEIU Communications Center on 42nd street with members of the Center for Inquiry NYC branch [...]
I’m attending my first marriage ceremony between a same sex couple this weekend. My cousin will marry her long term girlfriend. I say ‘marry’, but alas, no: it’s a marriage in everything but law, law which discriminates on the basis of the gender of the person you love. When people started changing their profile pictures [...]
In lieu of eFinancialCareers’ hard hitting exposé on how to best to pinch a penny in these tough times, we here at the Heresy Club decided to add in some of our personal tips. And by we, I mean me. And by penny, I mean gold bullion. …Enjoy! 1. Go a clothes diet. Instead of [...]