The Kind-Hearted Smart Aleck

When I first heard about the story concerning Christians' outrage at Starbucks for their plain red cups around Christmas, I honestly thought I was reading satire. As a matter of fact, I'm still wondering if that's the case, because I can't for the life of me understand the outrage. Starbucks vice president Jeffrey Fields said that, with the red cups, the company "wanted to usher in the holidays with a purity of design that welcomes all of our stories." Ex-pastor Joshua Feuerstein took exception to this, as he posted a video on his Facebook page, which has since gone viral, claiming Starbucks was removing "Christmas from their cups because they hate Jesus." He then went on to encourage customers to tell Starbucks baristas their name was "Merry Christmas," so the employees waiting on them would write that on the cup. I'm sorry, but this is beyond ridiculous and stupid. I know the folks at Fox News have made far-right Christians in...

It's getting increasingly disturbing how ignorant so many are about both geography and Ebola. I noted yesterday that there have been at least a handful of documented cases where a student, principal, school bus driver, or guests at a school have either been sent home or have prompted parents to keep their children home due to fear of a person from Africa or traveling from Africa potentially spreading Ebola to their kids. The crazy thing about every one of these cases is the fact these individuals, whom were from or traveled from Africa, were between 1,000 and 3,000 miles away from the Ebola outbreak. That brings me to an even more recent such case, where Liberian-American mother and TV presenter, Shoana Solomon, released a viral video telling a sad tale about her 9-year-old daughter, whom was told at school that she has a disease because she's Liberian. Just a day later, after the little girl sneezed in class, she was sent home. This is despite the fact that, in the past two ...