Philosophy

• More news about the smearing of Cheryl Abbate.  An anonymous post analyzes how McAdams blog post was factually incorrect.  Very good and very impressive!
• Listen to an impressive interview of Simone de Beauvoir (in English) by Studs Terkel taken in the 1960s.
• Camus’s description of Sisyphus through Candyland.

Race

• This is seriously the best blog I’ve encountered looking at the data and counter-data to the Michael Brown shooting.  Most of it could apply to Eric Cantor too.

Religion

• Solitude in theism.  A theist describes the weirdness of believers who believe through emotion rather than through reason.
• Christianity has become Moralistic Therapeutic Deism.

Sexuality

• Can friends who have sex stay friends? 
• Women who’ve had sex are better than men at deciphering the lingo for casual sexual relationships because of the greater risk uncommitted coitus poses to them, a new study says.
• People in open relationships may be healthier and happier.
• Certain people have a promiscuous personality: they are either extremely interpersonally warm (e.g., compassionate, sympathetic, etc.) or extremely interpersonally cold (e.g., harsh, uncaring, etc.).
• Many sex acts are now banned in the UK.
• Are there any nude pics of you but they need to be taken down (even without your consent)?  Here’s a good site that helps you with that process.