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  • Eating Out is Probably Devouring Much More of Your Budget Than You Realize

    Eating Out is Probably Devouring Much More of Your Budget Than You Realize0

      If you were to guess how much you spend on eating out per month, chances are you’ll miss the mark by a quite a bit. In a recent study, I found that adults tend to underestimate how much they spend on eating out by more than twice what they’re actually spending. This is a

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  • What Cannabis Growers Know that Climate Scientists Don’t

    What Cannabis Growers Know that Climate Scientists Don’t0

    On November 3, the U.S. Global Change Research Program released the Fourth National Climate Assessment, a 477-page document filled with concern about Earth’s changing climate. The study concluded that human emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) cause dangerous global warming. But cannabis growers know something that climate scientists apparently don’t know. The Fourth Assessment is an

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  • Wedding Cakes Have Nothing to Do With Free Speech

    Wedding Cakes Have Nothing to Do With Free Speech0

    The New York Times recently carried an interesting article on the wedding-cake controversy that is now before the U.S. Supreme Court. The article pointed out that prominent lawyers who specialize in First Amendment cases are “vexed” by the controversy. The facts of the case are simple: A Colorado bakeshop refused to create a wedding cake

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  • Sen. Al Franken Resigns in Wake of Sexual Miscount Accusations

    Sen. Al Franken Resigns in Wake of Sexual Miscount Accusations0

    WASHINGTON—Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., officially resigned in a speech on the Senate floor Thursday amid multiple allegations of sexual misconduct. Franken’s resignation comes the day after several dozen of his Democratic colleagues called for the Minnesota Democrat to step aside. Before announcing his resignation, Franken called himself a “champion of woman.” “I was shocked. I

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  • Breaking the Silence on the Toxic Masculinity at Intellectual Takeout

    Breaking the Silence on the Toxic Masculinity at Intellectual Takeout0

    TIME has spoken. The 2017 person of the year is not a mere individual, but a cohort of women labeled “The Silence Breakers” and pictured in the image above. These Silence Breakers are primarily the actresses who stepped out and spoke the truth about Harvey Weinstein’s despicable behavior over the last several decades. But they

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  • Are Republicans the Party for the Rich?

    Are Republicans the Party for the Rich?0

    I grew up in a Republican family in a blue-collar town on the Wisconsin River. Our town produced paper, wrestlers, and Blue Dog Democrats. Every four years, during the bitter presidential election cycle, I heard these five words a lot: “Republicans are for the rich!” I first heard the rejoinder in third-grade, when the blue-blooded

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  • Why Was Michael Flynn Charged with Lying to the FBI When Two Clinton Aides Got Off Scot Free?

    Why Was Michael Flynn Charged with Lying to the FBI When Two Clinton Aides Got Off Scot Free?0

    Robert Mueller’s probe into President Donald Trump’s alleged ties to Russia during the presidential election is reaching a crescendo. Former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn last week agreed to plead guilty to lying to the FBI and is now cooperating with the prosecution, setting off a frenzy of speculation about how high the investigation will

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  • What We Can Learn from David Cassidy’s Dying Words

    What We Can Learn from David Cassidy’s Dying Words0

    Recently, pop idol David Cassidy of Partridge Family fame passed away at the age of 67. According to his estranged daughter Katie, his dying words were “so much wasted time.” Months before he passed, Cassidy foreshadowed the meaning behind his dying words. Early in 2017, he announced his decision to stop touring saying, “I want

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  • What Happens When You Think

    What Happens When You Think0

    Jacques Maritain (1882-1973) was one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century. He was a French philosopher known for his adherence to the philosophy of the medieval Christian philosopher St. Thomas Aquinas. Maritain had a lot of interesting thoughts. One of them comes from his book Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry, a book

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