What Shamu Taught Me About a Healthy Marriage

Writer Amy Sutherland compares training animals and “training” husbands. She concludes that positive reinforcement is the best way to adjust disagreeable behaviors.

“So, like many wives before me, I ignored a library of advice books and set about improving him. By nagging, of course, which only made his behavior worse: he’d drive faster instead of slower; [...]

The Power of Prisons

You would think that massive complexes of concrete and barbed wire filled with the “worst of the worst” wouldn’t carry much political or economic power. But in America, prison has not only become big business, but an extremely powerful political lobby. Out here in California, politicians kow-tow to the Prison Lobby perhaps more than any [...]

History Lesson

Ota Benga alongside an was a Congolese pygmy who was featured in a 1906 exhibit at the Bronx Zooorangutan as an example of the evolutionary “missing link” between humans and apes.
This spectacle lasted for only a short time before black clergy spoke out, most notably, Rev. James Gordon. Gordon stated, “Our race, we [...]