In 2013, Aaron and Melissa Klein of Melissa’s Sweet Cakes Bakery refused to provide a cake for the wedding of Rachel and Laura Bowman-Crower. The Kleins, whose “Signature Cake Menu” includes a mudslide cake soaked in vodka and Kahlua, believed...
AT&T announced a limited launch of faster internet speeds in parts of Atlanta today, but that service comes at a high price: your privacy. Terms of service for AT&T’s GigaPower Internet service note that the company is allowed to...
I love Spotify, which puts pretty much every song ever published in the palm of my hand. Today, for my brother’s birthday, I decided to give him the gift of a six month subscription to the service. Thirty minutes later, I ended up giving him...
I’ve got a reputation as a digital guy. My iPad is always close at hand. I manage projects with hideous efficiency using Asana.com. I leverage services like TripAdvisor.com to plan magical vacations, and then use Apple Maps and Google Maps to...
“That’s the great tragedy of American culture: that you could not do All in the Family now. They would not let you. Americans have decided that the worst thing in the world is to be offended, and so they’re constantly running...
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve heard about the flap caused by Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson’s comments about gay people and black people. In cases like this one, it’s important to have the facts, beginning...
This great, short video illustrates very powerfully the massive income inequality in our great nation. In addition to the clear, engaging graphics designed to help you see what’s going on, it features a simple, straightforward message, and I...
During a performance of The Laramie Project, a play which examines the homophobic attitudes that led up to the brutal murder of Matthew Shephard, a group of Ole Miss students allegedly talked loudly on cell phones, disparaged the body types of the...
My father-in-law’s PC, at six years old, is getting a bit long in the tooth (especially for a machine expected to juggle his collection of 1100 digital photos). With performance slowing down and errors cropping up, we decided to get him a new...
