Often controversial, always impassioned, trunthepaige is a blogger whose opinion on Ann Coulter parallels my own. That's not saying much, but it's a start. Her opinion on this matter also parallels my own, so I submitte…

"Pain," a friend of mine asserted, "is the threshold between right and wrong." This is a fine and clever saying, but I would object to this on many levels. First off, we generally think of right and wrong as occurring …

Assumption is the mother of regret. But she's easy, so people do her.

There are conceptual tools that don't really carry well from one field to another. Line noise, for example, doesn't really exist for biologists, but it's a crucial concern for physicists and engineers. Overall, I recog…

If ripping out a human heart every day, Aztec-style, benefited a great number of people at tremendous cost to one unfortunate person, would that morally justify it to you? Would you do it? Would you shy back from doing…