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
Speaking of sports, though, I had a great insight today from a colleague: people who like sports are distinguished from people who don’t like sports based on their relative comfort level with ambiguous rules. See, as we grow and develop,… Continue Reading
There’s good dreams and then there’s bad dreams and then there’s dreams that wake you up in fear. My dreams are experienced in the first person, as I suspect most peoples’ are — I am an actor within my dream;… Continue Reading
Many of you Readers will have already come across the sensational story of a woman escaping from an eighteen-year captivity in an East Bay Area exurb. She was kidnapped by a stranger near her home in South Lake Tahoe in… Continue Reading
As intended, over the weekend The Wife and I went to see Watchmen. I’m not going to review it in detail because I was going to like it no matter what, although after having really enjoyed the depth and complexity… Continue Reading
So many times when I have a disagreement with someone, I am struck by how my counterpart seems to be responding to a world that is simply different than the one in which I live. Discussion of the issue becomes… Continue Reading
It’s my considered opinion that people remember things that generate intense emotions; things that generate only mild emotions tend to slip away into the fog of one’s generalized recollection of the past. Examples: I can remember, with great clarity, how… Continue Reading
For some reason that is not entirely clear to me, the bizarre and pointless campaign claim that Trig Palin was somehow Sarah Palin’s grandson and not her son and there is some sort of massive conspiracy to conceal this fact… Continue Reading
I read a story this morning that upset me badly. Not to the point of shedding tears of sorrow, although the story is very sad. Rather, I was closer to outrage. I’ll explain this in three parts — first by… Continue Reading
That turns out to be the Myers-Brigg personality type I exhibit on this blog. You can verify that here. I agree with that assessment entirely. My only quibble is that INTP types are described as: “they might come across as… Continue Reading