When looking through a kaleidoscope, child-like fascination is reignited. Mundane commodities, plain landscapes, average experiences and your homely girlfriend's face all suddenly explode in color, beauty...

While there are things that you could know, should know, but somehow manage to not know, you are experiencing a phenomenon called “willful blindness.” You are willfully blind when you don’t open...

Bradley Manning, the soldier who provided fodder for WikiLeaks creator Julian Assange, is being held in "maximum custody" at the Marine Corps Brig, Quantico, Virginia, and is expected to face a pre-trial...

I woke up in my flat this morning and looked through the dormer above my head to see two seagulls circling around in Dublin’s glowing, gray-orange morning light. There are two strange things about that...

Anybody who is offended by sexually explicit language, please cover your ears now. Since I’ve already done a poor job of burying the lead (yes, this is about sex), I might as well be clear from the...

Cairo, Egypt has been the focus of all news headlines for the past few weeks. And for once, the dialogue of each party isn't in conflict. President Barack Obama's stance on Egypt to have a "peaceful transition"...

With the House vote to repeal Obamacare and the visit by Chinese President Hu Jintao, Americans have awoken from our legislative holiday to be firmly reminded about the U.S. debt situation. Most sources...

President Barack Obama walked into a joint session of Congress last Tuesday filled with bipartisan applause and a myriad of handshakes from members of both parties. The seating chart was not divided into...

President Barack Obama's recent State of the Union Address was a centrist manifesto that offered everyone something to hate. Liberals bemoaned his plot to gut the federal government. The Conservative...

We’ve all heard talk of this healthcare bill. In fact, it has been on the news, in print and talked about over lunch since 2008. Still, there is so much chaos and conspiracy that most of us don’t know...

In the summer of 2005, I stopped eating meat. A friend at the time sent me a link to some grainy video on a PETA website, clearly taken with a shaky camcorder by someone on the "inside." Grave background...