I knew it! I wrote it! It happened! — I wrote an article titled “Trump’s Tearing Up Official Documents May Be His End” back in February. At the time, it was not yet known that he had carted documents off to Mar-a-Lago, so that information is missing from the article. However, it does include the juicy details about his…

Why biological and cultural diversity is the way forward — A farmer woke that morning in 1845. He nudged his two children out of the way, covered them up with some of the straw his wife kept on the dirt floor, and went outside to pee. Peeing on cabbages and beets had always produced bigger, tastier cabbages and beets, so…

How to detect plagiarism and avoid getting sued (as an editor, you, too, can be sued) — Medium Support defines plagiarism as: “any act of taking the words and/or ideas of others and presenting them as original or without proper acknowledgement or permission. This includes directly copying ideas and text (whether entire articles, paragraphs, or sentences), as well as paraphrasing and slight re-writes (often known as “mosaic…

Better than having them comment on your submission guide — When someone requests in a comment to be added as a writer to your publication, the only information you usually have about them is their username. All well and good, if this is all you need. Not so well and good, however, if you need more information. Adding a writer…

A new Pledge of Allegiance — The Pledge of Allegiance. We all know it. Many of us had to recite it in school. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Oh dear! …

Sixty-five years ago — My junior-high P.E. teacher stands before an all-girl class waving a picture of a penis over our heads. On a previous day, she showed us a similar picture of the female apparatus. There’s a lecture that goes along with the picture: Boys have these. Girls have those. It is very…

Shyness is real and often painful, but you can overcome it more easily than you might think — About 40 percent of all the people in the United States are awkward and unsure in social situations. Millions suffer from painful shyness along with loneliness, anxiety, and depression. In fact, shyness is so widespread that only about five percent of all people are not now and never have been…

Terrifying reports are coming out of Ukraine — Boots-on-the-ground reporting from Ukraine indicates that a nuclear disaster is no longer a distant reality. It’s a disaster that won’t result from a cackling dictator pressing some red button in some bunker somewhere; instead,… well, let’s look at the news reports and see what is going on: The reports are…