No Other God
2014-02-19 – You’ll excuse me for using this space to respond to a review that is currently appearing in The Nation called Beyond Naturalism: On Ronald Dworkin. The gist […]
Is Rand Paul a Good Guy or a Bad Guy on Privacy?
2014-02-13 – Is Sen. Rand Paul a good guy or a bad guy on privacy? Today he filed suit against President Obama and the NSA for violation of our fourth […]
Too Cold for Liquid Water
2014-02-11 – As winter wears on without a let-up temperature-wise, we begin to get a sense of what life might be like on Mars. There temperatures are […]
Cathedrals of Scent
2014-02-09 – My friend Chris posted an interesting article on Facebook: “What’s the Point If We Can’t Have Fun?” by David Graeber. The article contrasts one utilitarian view of evolutionary […]
Evolution Wins on Field Goals
2014-02-06 – When one team goes out to play baseball and the opponent is playing basketball, you might have a hard time saying who won. One team wins on […]
My Amazon Wish List
2014-02-04 – I have 375 books on my Amazon wish list. According to the US Census Bureau life expectancy figures, I can expect to live another 20 years. To […]
Groundhog Day
2014-02-02 – I shoveled snow again yesterday. Friday they were predicting as much as a foot of snow, but I shoveled, maybe, four inches. When I heard the forecast yesterday, […]
Indeterminacy of Guilt: Schrödinger’s Knox
2014-01-30 – If you know only the tiniest bit of quantum mechanics (a quantum of quantum mechanics or Q2M), you’ve surely heard of Schrödinger’s box. Schrödinger’s box is a […]
A Time to Be Born, a Time to Die
2014-01-28 – Pete Seeger came into my life through many back doors. His works were memes before the word “meme” was coined. I’m not big on pop culture, so when […]
Cold Fingers
2013-01-26 – I am typing now to try to get some circulation back into my fingers. Pat yourself on the back for being my frostbite remedy. Yes, it snowed […]
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