Dashing Through the Snow . . . What’s So Funny About It?
2014-03-02 – Dashing through the snow, in a one-horse open sleigh, o’er the fields we go, laughing all the way . . . Laughing? Maybe we’re laughing in December, but […]
Tag Archives: Religion
Memo to a Red State
2014-02-27 – With Texas becoming the latest state to have its ban on gay marriage declared unconstitutional, it might be time to step back and notice a trend. The trend […]
What’s It All About, Selfie?
2014-02-20 — So the big sink hole I feared was opening up in front of my house turned out to be a small one. Thank God–or whomever you thank for […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Eight Days a Week
2014-01-14 – If I understand my Roman calendar (which I may not), tomorrow is the Ides of January. Long months have the Ides on the 15th of the month. […]
A Box of Angels
2014-01-07 — The last thing we did Sunday before the temperature began its descent from the freezing single digits to frigid air, sub-zero territory was to pack up our Christmas […]
An Instrument of God
2013-12-31 – My friend Bob likes to say we are instruments of god. This is a hard one for me because I don’t believe in a god that is an […]
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