Category Archive: Politics

Dec 17 2012

Rushing to Be Part of the Gun Problem

If you can’t talk about guns without being irrational and emotional, why should I let you own one?

Dec 04 2012

Everyone Expects the Naturalistic Fallacy

Portait of a man built up from trees, rainbow, sun, and birds.

“The naturalistic fallacy…seems to be a particularly stubborn error committed by critics of evolutionary psychology…” Oh, really?

Nov 26 2012

Emergency Contraception OTC: It’s Time

Female in silhouette: "Why yes, we did help you get elected." Additional text: 1 in 3 people experience barriers in accessing EC. Fix that. Emergency contraception needs to be in our hands.

Women, in particular women of color, were critical in getting Obama re-elected. It’s time we/they got something in return.

Nov 20 2012

The Point of Parental Notification

All parental notification and approval laws do is give a parent a chance to make a decision that everyone else has to pay for.

Nov 19 2012

“Hard” Questions on Abortion

Answering a few “hard questions” about abortion. Hint: Not really that hard.

Nov 15 2012

A Caution on Uganda

A statement from several local groups on what they feel will and will not be helpful under the current circumstances.

Nov 08 2012

On Compromise and Reconciliation

The short version: No.

Nov 07 2012

Hate Is Not a Strategy (Updated)

Chart showing Minnesota Democrats in control of both the state house (73 to 61) and senate (39 to 28).

How did that attempt to turn out the base work out for you?

Nov 07 2012

The War on Science

Last week, Greg Laden and I got together to tape an episode of the Atheists Talk television show to talk about the War on Science in the U.S.

Nov 04 2012

Minneapolis 2012 Sample Ballot

In which I do the research so you don’t have to. Also a mini-rant on the marriage amendment.

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