Evil Cohort
2013-07-07 – Think about cave people. Can you imagine cave people rounding up 30 11-year-olds and forcing them to sit in rows for six hours a day with only one […]
Tag Archives: philosophy
90 More Shopping Days
2013-07-03 – Chicago used to have its big fireworks on this day. I used to go every year. Eventually, the event was combined with the Taste of Chicago and […]
Fixing the World
2013-06-20 – I’ll let creationists and evolutionist debate Chapter 1 of the Book of Genesis. Today, I want to take on Chapter 2. Here’s the language I want to dispute: […]
Sacred Economics
2013-05-20 – I just read a book called Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition by Charles Eisenstein. It was recommended to me by my friend […]
Trophies for Just Showing Up
2013-05-15 – You see it everywhere: people decrying a culture that gives trophies for just showing up. It’s socialist, they say, not to demand excellence, to reward behavior that anyone […]
Listen, Asshole!
2013-05-08 – I spent nearly 10 years as a volunteer community mediator. These were “minor” neighborhood disputes that had gotten out of hand. Many came to us because one of […]
A Murder of Crows
2013-04-29 – Thomas Hobbes had a dim view of nature, seeing life in nature as “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” The amazing thing about people who pontificate about nature is that […]
Terrorists from Madman-istan
2013-04-19 – Okay! So the Boston Marathon bombers were from Chechnya. And they apparently were Muslims. So we can now feel safe in assuming their motive was somehow related to […]
Terror Beneficiaries
2013-04-17 – The hours of uncertainty after an event like the Boston Marathon bombing bring up an interesting question—that is: what is terrorism? Here we had an event that created […]
Truth or Fiction
2013-04-14 – This weekend, I attended a writers conference where I got a chance to meet with other writers and talk about our work and the business of getting a […]
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