O Felice Giorno!
Sometimes, a good beer is just the thing you want. Libertine Benjamin Franklin once said that “Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.” Whether he believed in God or not depended on what point… Continue Reading
Month: January 2010
Were We Vaccinated Too Late?
Friday I left work after getting the necessary things done. Wasn’t feeling right. No one at your work wants you to be a hero and work through your illness only to infect them, too. I don’t think the people at… Continue Reading
This Never Happens When I Play The Sims
Three in the morning comes and my bladder tells me it’s time for a short interruption in sleep. This problem is easy to solve. But the dogs hear me moving about and come in, demanding food. It’s earlier than their… Continue Reading
Making Ignorant Choices
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: We all make choices based on incomplete information, all the time, and that isn’t necessarily a bad thing. One’s choice of religion is usually not a choice at all and is certainly based on incomplete information. That goes… Continue Reading
Leave Tiger Woods Be And Brit Hume Too
Brit Hume, a former anchor and host and still part-time commentator on Fox News, suggested over the weekend that Tiger Woods should become a Christian. He [Hume] is under criticism for saying he does not think that Buddhism offers the… Continue Reading
Really? People Still Do This?
Ashura is going on right now, it is a religious holiday in which Shiite Muslims annually mourn the death of the Prophet’s grandson Hussein, who died in battle in Karbala during the seventh century. As things for religious festivals go,… Continue Reading
McDonald’s Mayhem
Twenty-four year-old Melodi Dushane, of Toledo, Ohio, really wanted some Chicken McNuggets. Don’t judge her for that — we’ve all been there. But when she got to the McDonald’s and found that they were out, her response was not disappointment. … Continue Reading
Snuck Up On Me
It’s really less than 40 days to the Winter Olympics? I’ve not been paying attention, clearly — and not watching television, particularly NBC. Or maybe the Vancouver 2010 folks have simply not established any kind of a web advertising presence… Continue Reading
Exchange
In my experience, skipping a move in Scrabble to exchange tiles is an act of desperation, a functional concession that you are going to eventually lose the game. Part of that is because when The Wife and I play, we… Continue Reading
Top Ten Worst Bible Stories Rebutted And Re-Argued!
A commenter, Ennis, has taken the time to respond to my post from a few weeks ago about the top ten worst Bible stories with some extensive comments on his blog. Ennis is clearly smart, articulate, and intellectually committed to… Continue Reading