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2013 December 31 -- Bean Counter Fare
The new owners may have the VeggiTales name, but not the creativity
2013 December 25 -- In Hebrew
Reading slower gives a different perspective
2013 December 20 -- Thanksgiving Leftovers
Aftershocks from three items in "Christian" magazines last month
2013 December 17 -- Feminazi Action
Hero
In real combat, men would win against women
2013 December 16 -- "Christian" Movies
Happy endings are selfish, not Christian
2013 December 12 -- Reverse Marketing
Their dishonesty lost this customer
2013 December 11 -- The Next Steve Jobs
There isn't going to be another Steve Jobs
2013 December 10 -- Fix the World
Money does not solve problems caused by money
2013 November 29 -- Government Bungling
Sometimes the government is best that governs the least ("Chinese junk")
2013 November 28 -- Giving Thanks
for factory farms and processed food
2013 November 27 -- The Greeks Were
Smart
Insights from reading Xenophon
2013 November 18 -- Minority Faith
Organic farming is like atheism and Marxism: only possible as a minority
2013 November 15 -- Agricultural Sustainability
Factory farms reduce the cost of food to make other activities possible
2013 November 6 -- Sneakers
Another public link to my own past
2013 November 1 -- Persia
Three books in the same geography
2013 October 28 -- Really Bad Politics
Not so delightful, the politics at the end is ugly (Ringo on GW
& factory farms)
2013 October 25 -- "If You Care About
Our Security,"A
whine against what could not have been better
2013 October 23 -- One Thumb Up, the
Other Down
Bad language ruins an otherwise delightful book
2013 October 21 -- Oh Death, Where Is
Thy Sting?
The death penalty is not more cruel and inhumane than a quick end
2013 October 17 -- Coulda Fooled Me
Never mind what the director thought, his flick promotes violence
2013 October 16 -- Blurry Pixels
Nobody wants high quality images
2013 October 15 -- Putrid Chinese (PC)
Junk
Try and find a working monitor
2013 October 14 -- Pressure Cooker
No unearned praise in her classroom
2013 October 10 -- Rotten Movies
The name on top says a lot about the quality
2013 October 7 -- Feminist vs Feminazi
Rethinking the label
2013 September 26 -- Latin Blunder
Nobody knows Latin
2013 September 25 -- Sherlock Exonerated
Conan Doyle's Sherlock wasn't a jerk, he was just right
2013 September 24 -- Politics in Fiction
Unnecessary and not fun to read
2013 September 23 -- Passionate Calling
Everybody should love what they do
2013 September 16 -- Accurate Translation
Literalistic word-substitution is not translating
2013 September 12 -- His "Law" Is Too
Small (Part 2)
The Law of God is Good
2013 September 11 -- His "Law" Is Too Small
The preacher cannot live his sermon
2013 September 10 -- Marketing, and
Other Kinds of Relationship
Sometimes I feel so alone
2013 September 7 -- The Almost-Male
VersionIt's
still fiction
2013 September 2 -- Feminazi Fiction
Not much sci in this fi
2013 August 16 -- Koontz Oddity
A pro-religion family tribute
2013 August 15 -- Total Quality
The highest quality is when it does what I want
2013 August 13 -- Mo' Corn
The local experts in corn gastronomy were right
2013 August 10 -- Reality
The best authors write what they know; it helps if they know what they
write
2013 August 6 -- Telling Your Story
It's not what Jesus taught his disciples to say
2013 August 5 -- The Bishop Was Wrong
Hope is important only if it rests on the truth
2013 July 31 -- Beating the Reaper
The Christians are not the only ones inventing silly fantasies
2013 July 24 -- Brain Dead
Distinguishing credible numbers from Darwinistic hokum (Alcorn's "4 P's")
2013 July 16 -- Brokenness
It's everywhere, even among "nice" church people
2013 July 15 -- "America's Change of Mind on ...
Rights"
Barna is asking the wrong question
2013 July 12 -- Praying in Faith
Faith aligns our agenda with God's, not with our selfish ambitions
2013 July 9 -- Hopeless
Taking my own advice
2013 July 8 -- Quoth the Raven
Not repeating my mistakes
2013 July 6 -- Don Juan
Every woman wants him -- all to herself
2013 July 3 -- Enjoying Evil
The end thereof is death
2013 June 26 -- Bogus TemplarsThe
nature of magic is incredibly selfish
2013 June 24 -- Sherlock
Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock was not a jerk, but everybody seems to think
so
2013 June 19 -- Fantasy vs the Truth
3 novels that aren't "Christian fantasy" and why none can ever be
2013 June 8 -- Wishing I'd Spent More
Time at the Office
The vicissitudes of home ownership
2013 June 3 -- The Problem with Romance
Fiction
It's a drug for the hopeless to help them escape reality
2013 May 31 -- unBiblical Faith
The future is perfect. Make it so
2013 May 28 -- Still Life
I won't be going back for the sequel
2013 May 25 -- Fantasy: Post-Christian
Fiction
Truth is boring, fantasy is cool, the opposite of boring
2013 May 17 -- Musical Raspberry
The premises were all wrong
2013 May 16 -- Entropy
Steven Seagal is getting old and tired and fat
2013 May 11 -- Six Months Ago Today
Election post-mortem not worth reading, then nor now
2013 May 10 -- Hunger Games
No Telemachus in this movie, but I kept thinking there should be
2013 May 7 -- Post-Modernism, the New Dark Ages
Nobody knows nor cares about science any more
2013 April 30 -- Archeology and Dates,
Part 2
They consider one guy's pottery analysis more accurate than carbon-14
2013 April 29 -- Lyin' in the Desert
"They are not our teachers" -- a great line, honored mostly in the breach
2013 April 27 -- Inflation Arrived
They raised prices by reducing content
2013 April 26 -- TV Values
Biblical values without Jesus
2013 April 23 -- Pitch Imperfect
Jesus never taught unconditional love
2013 April 22 -- Dreaming the Impossible
Dream
Never give up!
2013 April 20 -- Yes, I'm Still HereMiscellaneous
thoughts piling up
2013 March 30 -- I Live in Sodom
The government is motivated by animus against straights
2013 March 15 -- The Social Contract
The beneficiary owes the donor a report on how donated funds are spent
2013 March 12 -- Excess Honesty
Honesty is not welcome in church
2013 March 5 -- Gender Fiction
Even fiction has rules: stray too far (TV
sci-fi "make-believe"), and your
show gets cancelled
2013 February 25 -- Live and Let Live
Sin seems to be more fun, but not for the other guy
2013 February 23 -- Perilous Times
God is bigger than Obama
2013 February 22 -- A Cold Winter Morning
Ideas are free, having good weather to do things changes the world
2013 February 15 -- The Trials of Job
God is Good, and the children are not dead (Karamazov)
2013 February 14 -- Obama still hates
me
Failing to make sense of it
2013 February 12 -- Incomplete ChristianityKaramazov
is theology missing its foundation
2013 January 23 -- It's the Economy,
Stupid
Still sending out applications
2013 January 15 -- Division of Labor
It's better to be paid for doing what I'm good at
2013 January 14 -- Winter
Things that go bump in the night are God's doing, not people ashamed of
their own god
2013 January 10 -- Reading My Own Library
Starting to read books I bought decades ago
2012 December 28 -- The Difference Between
God and Ore-Eye Impostors
We are not gods, and never will be
2012 December 25 -- Defeating the Atheist
Lies
"Religion" looks bad only because Christians don't live our own dogma
2012 December 15 -- I Still Hate Eunuchs
They are still missing a vital organ, so they cannot perform
2012 December 12 -- Pharma Prizes
Marxist ideas won't fly
2012 December 4 -- Interest Rates
I want my rates to go up, not down
2012 December 1 -- No Fear
"Apres moi, le deluge."
2012 November 30 -- Established Religion,
Free Speech Denial
Nobody holds LSU accountable
2012 November 27 -- True Obamanomics
Smart rich guys benefit from Obama's ignorance
2012 November 26 -- Usable Tools
The real MacOS still outperforms all its successors and imitators
2012 November 14 -- Obama's Friends
at Apple
"My way or the highway!"
2012 November 12 -- Electioneering,
Part 2
Americans chose the devil they know over the devil they don't
2012 November 7 -- Persecution
Jesus promised persecution, coming soon to a country near you
2012 November 6 -- Electioneering
Surprise that TIME stopped pushing Obama so hard
2012 November 5 -- Giving Thanks
We should thank God for everything, because God is Good
2012 November 3 -- God Did It
God also told us how, and the consensus of scientists is not science
2012 November 2 -- Chinese Junk
The Japanese camera I bought is made in China, and behaves like
it
2012 October 22 -- Atheism Poisons Everything
The movie producer was afraid to credit a hymn
2012 October 15 -- Light at the End
of the Tunnel
Obama lost her vote by endorsing evil
2012 October 13 -- Sending People to
Hell
God wants you to go to Heaven, but He won't force you
2012 October 6 -- The Harbinger
A "novel" based on a sermon based on Isaiah 9:10
2012 October 3 -- Getting Men into the Church
through Apologetics
What one church is doing
2012 October 2 -- Disenfranchisement
Holding our nose on election day
2012 September 27 -- Stupid in Entertainment
Bozos never become "brilliant" scientists
2012 September 24 -- The Atheist Is a Liar
There is no honest way to defend atheism
2012 September 21 -- Ashamed of the
Democrats
The left-wing bigots don't want you to know what they plan
2012 September 18 -- Pray for the President
He needs all the prayers we can make on his behalf
2012 September 15 -- CFLs Waste Energy
they take so long to come on, that we leave them always on
2012 September 11 -- Why Does Obama
Hate Me?
The power to tax is the power to destroy, and Obama wants to destroy me
2012 September 8 -- SuperPAC TIME,
Part 2
Not taxing what is not income does not make it a government subsidy
2012 September 4 -- Unpaid, Unregulated,
Left-Wing Political Ads
Turnabout is fair play
2012 August 31 -- Cometary Disaster
What the novelist didn't say
2012 August 30 -- Voting Your Values
Don't expect an honest portrait of a politician from a leftist director
2012 August 28 -- Deconstructing Left-Wing
Bigotry
Politicking in the media is best ignored
2012 August 24 -- Emulating Steve Jobs
As usual, WIRED got it wrong
2012 August 13 -- MicroBudget
Even the purveyors of filth and atheism want Justice
2012 August 11 -- Finding the Archer
It may be rare, it may be obscure, but the KJV appears
more accurate
2012 August 9 -- No Moral Dilemma
It's the perp who is evil
2012 August 8 -- The Ultra Holy City
God always has the last laugh
2012 August 7 -- Contentment
Rich or poor, I need to accept what God has given me
2012 August 6 -- WhiteHouse 4 Sale
They complain about the opposition spending money, but not their own
2012 August 4 -- Lies & Liars
It takes one to (think he can) know one
2012 August 2 -- Balancing Darwin vs Creation
It's hard to "balance" truth vs error; whichever is true must win
2012 August 1 -- Acts of God Against
the PresidentIs
the drought Obama's punishment?
2012 July 30 -- Christian Fiction
It's still predictable, sugar-coated, and preachy (original "Four P's")
2012 July 25 -- The God Particle
God laughs at the atheists trying to make sense of His universe
2012 July 21 -- Army Suicides
What's there to live for when the media hates them so?
2012 July 18 -- Apes & TV
There's a link, if you look for it
2012 July 12 -- Balance
The fine line between boredom and dishonesty in fiction (link to Lazir)
2012 July 9 -- Judas Obaminus
Why would any thinking American want a betrayer for President?
2012 July 5 -- The Church of Darwin
A level playing field for the culture wars
2012 July 4 -- Unemployment vs Deficits
Bush and Obama alike, higher Federal deficit leads to higher unemployment
2012 July 2 -- Appealing to Caesar
ObamaCare is still unConstitutional
2012 June 26 -- Biblical Criticism
The critics do not follow their own stated method
2012 June 22 -- Truth vs Propaganda
Darwinists don't care about Truth, so they cannot be true Christians
2012 June 20 -- Physics vs Games
No ants could get fried from those glasses (WIRED
as fiction)
2012 June 18 -- Balto Bunk
The sequel is not worth the time to watch it
2012 June 12 -- Turning the Ship
The country is too big for one guy to mess it up irreversibly
2012 June 7 -- Getting with the Program
If obeying the law is intolerable here, you probably won't like it in Heaven
2012 June 5 -- Elementary, My Dear
Watson
Reading the Bible like a detective story, and vice-versa
2012 June 4 -- "The Costly Chaos of
MediCare Failed"
And we expect ObamaCare to be better?
2012 May 26 -- King Bibi
They vote against everything they say they believe in
2012 May 23 -- Changed, But Not Improved
It ain't broke, don't fix it
2012 May 16 -- Government Done Wrong
Felons who want to become good citizens should be allowed to do so
2012 May 14 -- King Arthur's Britain
If so much history is a modern invention, we should be careful what we
believe
2012 May 11 -- Good Clean Reading
Two novels with no sex, no bad language
2012 May 9 -- Politics as Usual
Obama is too inexperienced to do anything but pander to the left-win bigots
2012 May 4 -- BubbleHead
Obama knows neither computer science nor how to run a government
2012 April 30 -- Religious Studies
vs Theology
The difference lies in whether the text is reliable or not
2012 April 28 -- Liars and Thieves,
All of Them Cowards
Like Muslim extremists, they are ashamed of what they do
2012 April 26 -- Biblical Repentance
It's a behavior change, not feeling demeaned or unhappy
2012 April 24 -- The Feminist Lie
No male writer ever writes that kind of mush
2012 April 19 -- Quo Quora
Restricted access to information is a show-stopper; stay with Wiki
2012 April 17 -- Humor"Benign
Violations" seems to explain a lot
2012 April 16 -- TV After the Fact
Paladin has new shows beat
2012 April 2 -- The Net Cost of ObamaCare
I could have given her $600 and then we'd both be ahead
2012 March 31 -- Feminazi StarGate
Women are different from men, nevermind what the feminazis say
2012 March 30 -- King SCOTUS Hears ObamaCare
It's a tough call, probably on politics not facts
2012 March 27 -- Bullies Everywhere
Not just kids in school, but anybody who can, will bully other people
2012 March 26 -- What the Media Won't
Tell You About Romney
A vote for Romney now is a vote for Obama in November
2012 March 24 -- Liars Figure
Left-wing bigots are still lying to the American people about ObamaCare
2012 March 23 -- Disappointed with Intimacy
John Koessler almost gets it
2012 March 20 -- Environmental Politicking
God made the earth more robust than the atheists want to admit
2012 March 16 -- Pride of Significance
The truth about myself unduly offends other people
2012 March 13 -- I'm a Nobody
Maybe God cares, but I have zero effect on the real world
2012 March 10 -- Religious Wars
Between the "nones" and the Christians, each with unrelated allies
2012 March 9 -- The Real Troy
Nobody cares about gods, so they get left out of the modern retelling
2012 March 6 -- Guliuzza's Scared Poster
He should stick to what he knows
2012 March 1 -- Justice for Hispanics
There are no easy solutions
2012 February 23 -- Getting On With Life
if I can find a life to get on with
2012 February 20 -- Let the Games Begin
Watching the politics, left vs right
2012 February 15 -- SignificancePsalm
37:4 doesn't seem to be working for me
2012 February 11 -- Old Dog, Older Tricks
Twitch game it's not
2012 February 7 -- Being Nice
Attack ads are not intrinsically evil
2012 February 1 -- The Elephant in the
Room
The USA has some good things going, but secular commentators don't see
everything
2012 January 25 -- Dangerous Movies
The ratings don't help with most kinds of evil
2012 January 21 -- Google's Ad
They want your cookies
2012 January 20 -- Godly Joking
Good jokes are funny, but somebody has to take the fall
2012 January 18 -- Buffett Is Business,
Not Politics
He understands American economics better than the politicians
2012 January 13 -- Politics from the
Left
The leftists prefer Romney, I (don't) wonder why
2012 January 3 -- Prehistoric Fiction
Movie writers tend to have more skill than in TV
2011 December 31 -- Giving People Their
Wish
Be careful what you ask for, you might get it
2011 December 24 -- Gender Wars
Women are different than men, and the women know it
2011 December 22 -- ... But Liars Figure
Marketing lies published as news
2011 December 20 -- Loving What You
Create
The only way to create truly great products; even God did it
2011 December 19 -- What Christians Believe
Sometimes the lay people are more Biblical than the theologians
2011 December 13 -- Fast Track to Failure
Providing value, not glitz, makes a business successful
2011 December 6 -- TIME
Again
Why not to vote for Romney
2011 December 3 -- What I Actually Wrote
They left most of it out
2011 December 1 -- Chimp DNA vs Human,
Part 2
A Creationist prediction
2011 November 11 -- 11/11/11, 11:11:11
We like things to come out even, and God cares about details too
2011 November 3 -- Translating Gender
There is no "gender-accurate" English Bible today
2011 October 25 -- Human Evils, Honestly
Told
I rarely see selfish cowardice accurately portrayed in fiction
2011 October 22 -- What's Wrong with
9-9-9
Herman Cain has not done his homework
2011 October 19 -- Obama's 2012 CompetitionThey
aren't as bad as Obama, but not far
2011 October 11 -- A Left-Leaning Text?
Pseudo-research about the Bible from a left-leaning student
2011 October 10 -- I Believe In God
God can do any miracles He wants, at any time or place He chooses
2011 October 5 -- Pray for Obama
He needs all the help he can get
2011 October 4 -- Things Jesus Never
Said
And some that are not in this Feeler-friendly book
2011 October 1 -- Hysterical Fiction
Writers of historical fiction cannot leave their modern values behind
2011 September 23 -- Taxing the RichBuffet
might be right, but they need to cut the spending even more
2011 September 17 -- Reasons of the
Heart
I eat to live, not live to eat
2011 August 29 -- DVD Woes, Again
The players try hard, but the producers try harder to foil them
2011 August 25 -- Sound Scholarship
Built on empirical data, but not necessarily consensus
2011 August 22 -- Muslim Extremists Blaspheme
Their Own Prophet
They do not believe their god is great
2011 August 16 -- Chimp DNA
vs
Human
New evidence against a common ancestor
2011 August 1 -- Extreme Science
A chimp+human hybrid experiment is deemed "unethical" because it disproves
Darwinism
2011 July 25 -- Competing in the Global
Market
It's hard when you are only a cypher out of hundreds competing
2011 July 22 -- Three Systems
Apple's OSX crashed more often than Mac or Windows,
with less use
2011 July 20 -- Debate by Redefinition
He who writes the dictionary wins the debate, but not to a fair audience
2011 July 18 -- Stop Now
We need a simple and consistent way to turn every device off
2011 July 15 -- Touch Not
If I never get another touch screen device in my life, it will be too soon
2011 June 28 -- Man vs the Bible
Reports of the death of Christianity are greatly exaggerated
2011 June 24 -- Playing Video Games
Using undocumented software is like guessing which weapon to use
2011 June 15 -- State of Misery
Lightning took out all the phones, which I replaced in gasoline savings
2011 June 14 -- Adam & Genetics
Science has not yet disproved the Bible
2011 June 6 -- Secondhand Lions
Believing because it is true
2011 June 2 -- Bug Season
I hate spiders
2011 May 24 -- iTrash
I hope I never have to touch another iPod
2011 May 11 -- No News
Nothing tells how and when bin Laden died
2011 May 5 -- Against Darwin and Government
It's fiction, of course
2011 May 2 -- Alternate History
I don't read historical fiction, I write it
2011 April 28 -- Smuggled
A link to a book review
2011 April 11 -- Living My Religion
Relationshipism gives a different moral response than 1+2C
2011 April 8 -- Wishful Thinking
There are dangerous wild animals out there
2011 April 7 -- The Business of Charity
Nonprofits are not looking for ways to spend vast sums of money
2011 April 4 -- Looking Forward
Some books to read after the sci-fi runs out
2011 March 28 -- Sequel
The first novel was better
2011 March 21 -- Deboning
If you refuse to read the ads, they will stop paying for them
2011 March 17 -- Job Hunting
True virtue is difficult and unpleasant, and few there be that find it
2011 March 15 -- Memorable
I was never a blasphemer nor a persecutor nor a violent man
2011 March 9 -- Literary Inference,
part 2
He knows little of human nature and nothing about governing
2011 March 8 -- Seasonal Affective Disorder
The weather is gloomy, and so am I
2011 March 5 -- Literary Inference
Addition of a co-author did not improve the story
2011 March 2 -- Democracy
It's not "undemocratic" for elected representatives to do what they promised
the voters
2011 February 28 -- Identity
Group membership does not define who I am
2011 February 16 -- Sci-Fi Redemption
A non-Christian redemption story (hive) to replace the message of the Bible
2011 February 12 -- Archeology and Dates
The archeologists don't know
2011 February 4 -- Stuck Again
The phone capriciously self-destructed
2011 February 2 -- Stuck in the Snow
At least it's not Alaska
2011 January 27 -- "Hard" Sci-Fi
Don't judge the book by its cover
2011 January 26 -- Nobility in Fiction
It's easier to write (and more fun to read) about wealth and power
2011 January 17 -- Collapsium
Science in support of fiction (original "those who can, do; who cannot,
teach" link)
2011 January 15 -- Non-Contender
Fiction, written by a left-wing bigot in support of left-wing bigotry
2011 January 12 -- Bitter Cold
I wish I were back in California
2011 January 5 -- Eyewitness Account
The eyewitness deserves some respect
2011 January 4 -- Don't Ask
They are not proud of their country, and neither am I
2010 December 22 -- Illogical Atheists,
Part 3
We both grew tired of the caricature of me he invented
2010 December 21 -- Eclipse
My big whoop for the solstice
2010 December 13 -- Creating Wealth
The stock market doesn't, with some links to other essays
2010 December 10 -- JavaScript in JavaScript
A link to my interpreter
2010 December 7 -- EMP Risk Assessment
Most of us are more likely to die in a car accident
2010 December 4 -- One Second After
The USA is probably unprepared for the economic disaster of EMP
2010 November 26 -- Illogical Atheists,
Part 2
They seem unwilling to pursue truth
2010 November 22 -- Roots
A tiny connection between my childhood and an otherwise undistinguished
movie star
2010 November 18 -- The Trigger
Good story idea poorly implemented (A.Clarke sci-fi vs. bullies)
2010 November 15 -- Dialog and Honesty
Without mutual respect for integrity, the dialog is over
2010 November 11 -- Knowing the Difference
The atheists are not more moral after all
2010 November 4 -- Illogical Atheists
There are moral absolutes, but the atheists can't figure them out
2010 November 1 -- Logical Atheists
There aren't any
2010 October 30 -- Truth in Labeling
I refuse to support deception by using ambiguous terms
2010 October 25 -- The Joy of Farming
Caring for an aged parent without losing the farm
2010 October 23 -- Unregulated Monopoly
No choice means bad service
2010 October 18 -- Tempting God
Why should we expect God to protect us from our own folly?
2010 October 15 -- TMI
"Too Much Information" as an excuse stands in the way of clear thinking
2010 October 5 -- Clue Deficit Disorder
50% decline is actually 10,000% increase
2010 October 2 -- Religious Novels
The stories were good, except for the religion and the blunders
2010 September 28 -- Practicing Contentment
God is in control, and God is Good
2010 September 27 -- Trumpeting Mediocrity
The vendor persuaded me to not want to see any more of their flicks
2010 September 22 -- Ayn Rand Again
ChristianityToday article agrees with me
2010 September 20 -- Trivia, Bible
and Otherwise
Filling my mind with what's important
2010 September 17 -- Peer Pressure
Sci-fi author Bova goes with the crowd on religion
2010 September 13 -- Against Socialism,
but Also WrongThe
Fountainhead is historically and socially inaccurate
2010 September 11 -- Terrorist Act(s)
The movie got it backwards
2010 September 6 -- Cheap Imitations
by the Same Name
The TV series Christy does not resemble what the wife of a famous
preacher would have written
2010 September 2 -- Fiction about Religion
Atheists don't trust themselves to investigate the core of truth in religion
2010 August 28 -- Sauce for the Goose
Are smart phones and time-travel aliens more credible than a smart Creator?
2010 August 23 -- Religious Villainy
(Fiction)
You only see religious villains in fiction, not real life
2010 August 19 -- Fictitious Religion
Irreligious sci-fi authors do not understand what they disbelieve
2010 August 17 -- The "Family" of God
Empty words, because there is no commitment to church members
2010 August 12 -- Heinlein's Moon
A good read, despite libertarian nonsense
2010 August 9 -- The Caffeine Connection
"New & Improved" means it now tastes horrible
2010 August 7 -- The Language Barrier
Machine translation won't save dying languages
2010 August 4 -- Suspending Disbelief
Incorruptible heroes and moral relativism spoil the Lensmen fiction
2010 August 3 -- Pascal and Reason
The philosopher believed reason drives faith; the Berkeley prof bungled
his quote
2010 August 2 -- Relationshipism at
Work (Vulnerability)
Beth Moore is authentic, but not "vulnerable"
2010 July 27 -- Relationshipism at
Work (Cinema)
The best movies credibly balance the tension between Thinker and Feeler
values
2010 July 23 -- Becoming a Third-World
Nation
Government power and religion trump truth and justice
2010 July 17 -- Azazel
Remarkable moral values from an atheist sci-fi writer
2010 July 12 -- Whither Diversity
Should I take down my politically incorrect blog postings, or leave them
up?
2010 July 10 -- The State of Misery
The local climate is toxic to video
2010 June 28 -- Thinking Clearly
Surfing the internet makes people stupid
2010 June 26 -- The Diversity Lie
They only want vanilla, with a variety of added food coloring, but no actual
differences
2010 June 24 -- Maps
GPS and the internet destroy access
2010 June 22 -- Ender
The moral problem of the "good guy" beating up the bad guy
2010 June 18 -- Moishe Rosen
The passing of an eloquent comentator
2010 June 15 -- Legalism
It means "Loves Jesus more than I do"
2010 June 5 -- Keyboard Woes
They don't make them like they used to
2010 May 31 -- "B" as in "Badly Botched"
Movie
Don't waste your time on this one
2010 May 26 -- Marketing
Figures don't lie, but liars figure
2010 May 17 -- Missing Children
If there are no young people, the church will be dead when the old folks
are
2010 May 14 -- Leisure Reading
Different reactions to different books (first LFOD
mention)
2010 May 10 -- An Alternative to ObamaCare
that is Not Evil
a link to the People's Choice
Health Care plan
2010 May 6 -- Debating ObamaCare
Nobody is willing or able to defend an evil law in fair debate
2010 April 5 -- Sky Wars
An Israeli propaganda piece made out to look like "high flying adventure"
2010 April 3 -- Censored
The people still cussed in the 30s, but not on screen
2010 April 2 -- Sherlock, part 2
Conan Doyle's Sherlock was not a jerk
2010 March 27 -- Temptations
Don't be the tempter, because Bad Things Happen
2010 March 25 -- Destroying Health Care
ObamaCare also destroys the incentive for medical research
2010 March 23 -- Peering through the GloomEither
Obama and his cronies are lying through their teeth, or else they are idiots
2010 March 20 -- The Nature of Education
Education requires disaffirmation
2010 March 19 -- Edutainment
I'm too honest to work under a mission statement that's a lie
2010 March 11 -- 24/7
What can I say? It's fiction
2010 February 17 -- Darwinism Impedes
Research
"Junk DNA" turns out to have important metabolic function
2010 January 25 -- Downside of Democracy
It makes your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete
2010 January 13 -- Fake Religion
The gods are not pleased with the sacrifice of a murder victim
2010 January 8 -- Heroes
Fantasy, where the laws of physics don't apply