When someone becomes overly insistent and aggressive about the truth behind their deeply held religious beliefs, I like to remind them that their beliefs are almost certainly predicated on geography.…

Ten years ago today, on March 16, 2016, the following happened. Thank goodness I write, because had I not written about this on March 16, 2016, the moment would have…

I was performing stand up recently at a library in Monterey, MA. At the end of the evening, a woman approached and said, "I hope you don't swear in front…

Protip: If you're using The Bible to justify your opposition to same sex marriage, please don't forget to treat all adulterers EXACTLY the same way. God makes it abundantly clear…

Have you heard about the Ultimate Double Feature? This special bit of movie magic hinges on the moment when characters in a movie go to see another movie, and the…

Behold! Tear Gun by Taiwanese designer Yi-Fei Chen is a contraption that “collects and freezes actual tears to shoot them back at the person who caused the cry.” It's the…

Ten years ago today, on March 11, 2016, Clara was a seven-year-old girl in second grade, sitting at the table, doing her homework, when this happened: ___________________________________ My daughter had…

For all of you fellow Coincidentalists (at last count, there were seven of us): Despite sharing the same name and the same triple-diamond logo, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (cars, rockets, air…

In a closed-door meeting with clergy from the Diocese of Rome late last week, Pope Leo XIV told his priests to resist the “temptation to prepare homilies with artificial intelligence."…

I was recently standing in a hospital lobby when I spotted a wall of plaques listing the hospital's donors and the original executive team — about 100 names altogether. While I…