In Defense of Hatred
The concept that began as a short video just over 14 months ago (a gut-response to the terror attacks in Paris), is finally published and up for sale. You can purchase…
Individualism and Collectivism
In ordinary political parlance, the political divide is normally framed in terms of "right" and "left." There is a solid foundation for why these labels are helpful, but the terms…
Christianity and Nietzsche (II)
In my previous post on Nietzsche, I began to address the German philosopher's argument that "God is dead," especially as it relates to Christianity and Christianity's relationship to truth, distilled from The…
Christianity and Nietzsche
The man who declared "God is Dead" may or may not be the most misunderstood philosopher, but he is almost certainly the most misquoted. The actual context of the phrase…
Resolutions
And in the naked light I saw Ten thousand people maybe more People talking without speaking People hearing without listening People writing songs that voices never shared No one…
On Data and Science
The irrepressible Justicar recently exposed a fraudulent study published in the Journal of American Medical Associates linking Australia's 1996 gun-restriction legislation to decreases in mass shootings, in which "mass shootings"…
It’s All A Metaphor: Dreams, Memory, Language and Stories (Part I)
Why care about dreams? Dream interpretation has been a mystical art for thousands of years, and yet dreams, as they appear to us (when we remember them), look absurd. They…
Sex and the Soul
I posted this picture from Bellevue College on facebook a while back as a sarcastic example of "tax-dollars well-spent." But there are many ways that tax-dollars are misused, particularly in…
Geeks Bearing Gifts: An Argument Against Transhumanism
A friend and I were watching a TED talk on the subject of aging. The speaker was Aubrey de Grey, a British biologist who proposed a simple but fascinating new…
On Wolves, Sheep, and Sheepdogs
Fool, prate not to me about covenants! There can be no covenants between men and lions, wolves and lambs can never be of one mind, but hate each other through…