Here is what God allegedly knew from the beginning of time: He would create two humans without knowledge of good and evil and tell them not to eat fruit from a certain tree that would give them knowledge. We don’t know why God did not want humans to have knowledge. Without knowledge G...
This of course leads to the downfall of trust in elite institutions. You have things from Watergate to the sexual abuse scandal that start to undermine, start to crack the sort of public trust in those institutions. But honestly, what changes this in a profound way is not this or that sca...
In June 1920, United States GOP delegates and other party members gathered in Chicago for the Republican National Convention. According to historians, theconvention was at an impassewithout a candidate everyone could agree on when leaders turned their attention to Ohio Sen. Warren G. Harding. The ...
On Aug. 9, 1974, President Richard Nixon resigned over his role in the Watergate scandal. "I hope that I will have hastened the start of the process of healing,” Nixon said in his final speech from the Oval Office. This Getty Images photo depicts the 37th president's farewells to Wh...
Well, you could drop an f-bomb on live TV, show your bare ass to the audience or leave the production company with a bill for more than $1,000 in damages made to your hotel room. The Replacements did all three in 1986, in what was the Minneapolis band’s first appearance on televis...
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Ford, who became president after Richard Nixon resigned due tothe Watergate scandal, faced a strong challenge from his right in 1976. Winning many of the Southern and Western states that would soon become the electoral nexus of the GOP, Reagan came close to upsetting Fordat the Republican conve...
Judge Michel rightly said that the patent system has become the domain of propagandists, “narrative” builders and spin artists, and not experts. For example, we hear these patent propagandists scream “God save us from patent trolls!” But, did anyone ever ask where the term “patent troll...
Just as colonial officials and missionaries, traveling to India, had imposed the concept of ‘religion’ on the societies they found there, so did agnostics colonize the past in similar manner. The ancient Egyptians, and Babylonians, and Romans: all were assumed to have had a ‘religion’. ...
Lil Bo Weep, real name Winona Brooks, was an Australian artist and social media personality. According to her father, who shared the news of her death on Facebook, she died on March 5. “She fought hard against her demons as we all did side by side next to her and picking up the ...