Culture – Page 60 – Josh Benner

Pro choice paradox: why efforts to curb gender selective abortions are irrational

Jan 17, 2012

Note: this post discusses what I see as a logical paradox in the current debate about abortion as a means of gender selection. Full disclosure: I am personally pro life. I’ve written before about the topic of gender selective abortion. In developing nations, the process of aborting a fetus (typically of a girl) based on…

Why I wish that 104.9 the River would stop playing Christmas music!

Dec 4, 2011

104.9 The River is an FM radio station in Columbus that plays contemporary Christian music. It is focused on being uplifting, encouraging, and family friendly. I like the station, and I appreciate what they do. With all of that being said, I really, really wish they would stop playing Christmas music.

Facebook 2004 and Facebook 2011. Seven year anniversary of joining the Social Network

Nov 16, 2011

I can still vividly remember it. Talking to a friend from high school on AIM, him sending me the link to some obscure site that he had mentioned to me called thefacebook. “BG has it now,” he said, telling me to register. I was skeptical. thefacebook? What does that even mean, but I followed his…

The Miracle Basketball Video and Why Facebook Made it Popular

Nov 8, 2011

Since this weekend, I’ve seen over a dozen Facebook friends share the same video of a high school basketball team manager in New York (who had never gotten to play before) who has autism who was put into a game and hit six 3-point shots. Through Facebook, people marvel at the accomplishment. They call it…

Steve Jobs Tribute: an Innovation Icon

Oct 6, 2011

Steve Jobs changed the world. Of the billions of people who have walked the earth, there are very few for whom such an epitaph could be written. For Steve Jobs, it cannot be denied.