Chinese Christmas
2013-12-24 – Merry Christmas! My parents had a tough time saying this. To be honest, I did too, once. In some ways, it was a mirror image of the […]
Tag Archives: Life
Space In Front of Your Car
2013-12-05 – Who owns that space in front of your car? No one when the car is stopped. In fact, the space often goes away. But turn on the car […]
Atheist Thanksgiving
2013-11-26 – I’ve never really understood this business of thanking God for anything. It’s like thanking my hat for keeping my head warm or my boots for keeping my feet […]
Red Friday
2013-11-24 – I always thought I had a pretty good sense of color. I score pretty high on a variety of color blindness tests. High, meaning that I can discriminate […]
Slalom for Dogs
2013-11-17 – The north and south boundaries of the east half of our neighborhood park are marked by a line of posts, separated six feet on center. The posts are […]
Twain Technology
2013-11-12 – The release last month of the Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2: The Complete and Authoritative Edition (Mark Twain Papers), put me in mind of Kit’s an my […]
Neither Shall They Learn War
2013-11-07 – Okay. I was bad in my last post on behavioral learning. In my defense, I was on a train when I wrote it. I don’t know what that […]
Global Questions
2013-10-29 – You listen to people of faith. You listen to people of science. And you hear the same stuff. Talk about beginning. Talk about ends. Talk about how we […]
A “Timered Bomb”
2013-10-10 – Those of us who were there Tuesday morning didn’t think of ourselves as heroes. We just did what had to be done. It is only now, two days […]
Hernia? Jesus!
2013-10-01 – Happy Diogenes Day! If you’ve been reading my blog recently, you know that today is the day for celebrating truth telling. But I’ve written enough on the subject […]
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