You’re Right, I’ve Been Wrong My Entire Life
2015-07-26 – When have you ever heard these words: “You’re right, I’ve been wrong my entire life”? It doesn’t happen. Or if it does, it comes after a long and […]
Tag Archives: philosophy
You Can Barely Teach a Young Dog New Tricks!
2015-07-21 – They say you can’t teach an old dog new tricks. The assumption behind this saying is that you had no trouble at all teaching tricks to the dog […]
What Mission? Who’s Left Behind?
2015-06-21 – Another gunman has provided us with evidence of the Rapture, only it’s not exactly the Rapture that the faithful await. In case you’ve just tuned in the Rapture […]
Every Day Is Opposite Day! (No it Isn’t!)
2015-06-14 – We seem to be living a never-ending Opposite Day—you know: the time when you try to say or do the opposite of everything I say or do. I […]
Revenge Is Not Enough
2015-06-09 – The saga of the Duggar family and their wayward son comes at the intersection of at least two of my cultural blind spots. I don’t follow reality TV […]
No Trophies Just for Participating?
2015-05-03 – There’s an ecard floating around the Internet that goes like this: “I’m afraid of a world run by adults who were never spanked as kids and got trophies […]
Religion Roulette
2015-04-28 – No one follows biblical law to the letter. Everyone picks and chooses. St. Paul rejected some or all of the law of the Torah (Old Testament), depending on […]
Are Dogs As Smart as a Two-Year Old? (And Is That a Good Thing?)
2015-04-19 – While half the world believes the other half isn’t intelligent enough to be considered human, scientists are busy finding that all sorts of nonhuman critters have human-level intelligence. […]
Please Uncircle the Wagons
2015-04-09 – You read about cops shooting innocent people. Not all cops do this. Not many cops do this. So what’s with cops defending this kind of behavior? You read […]
In Every Generation—Shit Happens
2015-04-05 – I was doing last minute preparations for the Passover Seder Friday when I did a “final” count of the expected guests and was shocked that the original 20 […]
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