Wash Park Prophet

The FDA currently permits women aged seventeen and older to obtain the "morning after pill" (a.k.a. Plan B contraception) without ...

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is distancing itself from the the American Psychiatric Association and its upcoming Diagnost...

Two brothers aged 25 and 18, who got in a fight with Chris Haney at a Denny's at Sante Fe and Alameda in Denver and were arrested an hou...

One could say that I had the misfortune of my adolescence overlapping almost perfectly with the last few years prior to the ‘pornographic s...

There are certain aspects of medical billing in the United States that are absurdly out of step with reasonable expectations in a modern mar...

Limerence  is an involuntary state of mind which results from a romantic attraction to another person combined with an overwhelming, obses...

Driving to work today was like driving through a cloud.  Snow is coming down heavy on May Day.  Snow late in the spring isn't unpreceden...

From here for 2010. The total is 13,428,300 which is subject to considerable adjustments based on the definition of "Jew" used...

Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that.   Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that. - Martin Luther King, J...

This study tested whether the timing of first sexual intercourse in adolescence predicts romantic outcomes in adulthood, including union fo...

The 2011 Somali famine killed an estimated 260,000 people, half of them age 5 and under . . . The aid community believes that tens of thou...

* Early Wednesday morning, Colorado will have its first civil unions.  Polling showed that this measure providing for marriage in all but na...

Few things are more wretched than being single and unattached, or married and separated, at least on those evenings when you are home alone ...

It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician i...

$1 = 100¢ = (10¢) ^ 2 = ($0.10) ^ 2 = $0.01 = 1¢. From here . Obviously, this is wrong.  But why?  A correct answer that exposes the s...

The question of what sort of laws and policies are necessary to prevent terrorism, or at least to make it harder to carry out terrorist acts...

A recent Huffington Post article on Zero TV households captures me and my motives for not having one (or a landline telephone) to a T.  We ...

The Bureau of Economic Analysis is trying to determine the time period over which to amortize investments in cultural intellectual property ...

Fifteen per cent of taxi drivers in the US have a degree, up from 1 per cent in 1970. Likewise, 25 per cent of sales clerks are graduates, ...

April showers bring snow ploughers. - repeated by my children from an unknown source, and aptly summing up today's repeat snowy weath...