Skeptophilia

I think we've all had moments when we were taken in by a prank or a hoax.  Some of them can be pretty clever, and after all, we're o...

Is it just me, or has the Religious Right completely lost the plot? And surprisingly, I am not referring to their continuing support of Dona...

I'm about halfway through the first draft of my current work-in-progress, a novel called In the Midst of Lions  about a perfectly ordina...

A Senegalese saying goes, "There are forty different kinds of lunacy, but only one kind of common sense." I got an object lesson...

There's a saying that has been repeated often enough that it is nearly a cliché, and that is: Be careful what you wish for, you may get ...

I usually tell you a little about my topic before I give you my solemn promise that I didn't make any of it up. This one is so weird t...