It’s alright to just say “Have a great day” — Let’s just establish one thing from the get-go: the phrase “Have a great rest of your day” is clunky… as… fuck. But let’s acknowledge something else: As clunky as it may be, it’s also spreading like wildfire. Why, though? “Have a great day” is perfectly adequate. You don’t need the…

The devastating fallacy at the root of religion — I have a pet peeve. Maybe it’s the writer in me. Maybe it’s the lawyer. Whatever it is, I always cringe inside whenever I hear someone misuse the phrase “begs the question.” And it gets misused a lot. Especially by journalists, which is doubly disappointing. How can their editors not…

Why the crypto economy isn’t, and shouldn’t be, a secret — I just finished reading Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency, by WIRED Magazine’s senior cybersecurity writer Andy Greenberg. I highly recommend it to anyone who’s interested in true crime and technology, or who wants to better understand cryptocurrency and the blockchain. In this…

Why I’m not worried, and you shouldn’t be either — According to an NBC News poll taken at the end of June, two-thirds of Americans say they have concerns about President Biden’s mental and physical health. More than half say they have “major” concerns. …

On the real meaning of Vivek Ramaswamy’s run — “Vivek’s an empty suit,” I said. “He’s just the anti-woke candidate.” “What’s wrong with that?” my friend asked. Where to begin. I gave my friend the tl;dr answer, but if I had to elaborate here’s what I’d say. There are at least two huge problems with running a presidential campaign…

Allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices will make life harder for cybercriminals — Last week, President Biden announced that the government would negotiate with Big Pharma to set lower prices for ten of the most common and costly drugs currently used by Medicare beneficiaries. …

Why all ethics are ultimately consequentialist — Historically, moral philosophers have tended to fall into one of three camps. There are the consequentialists, who define good and evil actions in terms of the benefits and harms they bring about. There are the deontologists, who call an action good or evil depending on whether it conforms to a…

An alternative theory for the decline of female happiness — Since the 1970s, women have made tremendous gains relative to men in terms of education, labor force participation, pay equity, and occupying positions of power. Of course, inequalities still remain. …

Vivek Ramaswamy & Co. are this century’s version of Gilded Age Social Darwinists — Earlier this week, presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy voluntarily stepped into a massive pile of shit when, while attempting to justify MAGA conspiracy theories about January 6th, he wondered aloud how many federal agents were on the planes that took down the twin towers on 9/11. And then he lied about…