The Indigestible

Our pro-​​​​democracy rep­re­hen­si­bles rep­re­sen­ta­tives are at it again. CNN recently aired a video show­ing American sol­diers being stalked in Iraq. It’s creepy and dis­tress­ing, but when you have elected offi­cials actively agi­tat­ing for sup­pres­sion of free­dom of the press, you have to won­der when they’ll real­ize (if they’ll real­ize) that they’re sound­ing more and more like […]

Fundamentalist Muslim doc­tors are endan­ger­ing their patients’ health by advis­ing them to fast dur­ing Ramadan, which is a month long. Some devout peo­ple are appar­ently dying of belief. Is it pos­si­ble to start a fun­da­men­tal­ist Christian fast­ing tradition?

There’s a new engi­neered virus that might be very effec­tive at killing can­cer­ous cells. But, since it’s a GMO, we can be sure that the “green” folks will do every­thing pos­si­ble to get it banned, as they’ve done with drought– and blight-​​​​resistant crops that oth­er­wise might have kept Africans from starv­ing to death. Too bad stu­pid­ity isn’t con­sis­tently fatal.