Another Apologist: P.W. Dunn

Below is a comment of mine directed to P.W. Dunn in a discussion I started with him.  I also posted my comments in my blog here in the post titled About Canonizing Acts of Paul.  The comment here was originally intended to be posted in his blog, but I decided I no longer wanted to continue my dialogue with him [...]

My Brain On Google

Here is a blog post from Matt Cardin in which he responds to an article from The Atlantic (Is Google Making Us Stupid? by  Nicholas Carr).  I agree that the internet alters cognitive functioning, but I don’t see this as problematic.  I’m old enough to have grown up reading books.  I didn’t even become all that [...]

I just want to live my own life and do my own thing.

Here is something I wrote a while back, but never got around to posting.  It’s very personal and it’s partly just me venting.  I don’t always feel this way.  I do care about my family and feel relatively close to them.  Still, I’m uncertain what I want or can realistically expect from family.  Since writing [...]

Homelessness and Civilization

I have a large set of connections I want to set down, but I’ll try to keep it simple as possible.  The seed around which my thinking formed consists of the recent discussions that I’ve been involved with on the Press Citizen.  These discussions have been about the deaths of two “homeless” people (although it’s unclear whether [...]

Healthcare: Right vs Responsibility

Insurance and Social Security…Pet Peeves (blog post by gina from Gaia.com) Steve said in the comments section: However, as a Libertarian, I do not see my healthcare as a responsibility of the Federal Government, nor do I consider it a “right”. I don’t necessarily disagree with this on a philosophical level because it’s a rational perspective.  [...]

Officer Shoots Homeless Man: Comments

My local “newspaper” has an active community of commenters, and I must admit I rarely read the paper version.  To tell you the truth, I find the comments online more interesting than most of the articles.  There was a homeless man shot by a police officer and it attracted many comments including my own.  Since the [...]

Dad, I’m bored.

This post will be very short compared to some recent writings of mine.  I just had a thought about my past.  Around the latter part of elementary school, I remember telling my dad that I was bored… it was probably summer.  It’s an odd thing to remember.  The only other aspect I remember is that [...]

Normality and Rationality

I was thinking about two issues of how people respond to that which is conventionally thought of being outside of the “normal”.    — The first issue I’ve thought about many times before as it comes up in the literature of UFOs and the paranormal.  I was skimming through some books by the likes of John Keel, [...]

Review: Taxi to the Dark Side

This is one of the best documentaries I’ve watched in a long time. It made a powerful case against the Bush administration. If you could still support torture after watching this, then there is something seriously wrong with you.  It was surprisingly balanced and nuanced. The soldiers who did the torturing were given the opportunity [...]

Showcasing Sites for Writing

I was reading a blog post by Anne Whitaker (To the website! Chapter Three (at last!)) and came across these showcasing sites.  Author’s Den Creative Carnival Blog Carnival Technorati Zimbio I’d heard of Technorati before, but hadn’t ever looked into it.  I’m not sure that I’m all that interested in going out of my way to [...]