Rational Conservatism from the Rocky Mountains
So, my previous post on the “Super” and “Micro” moons were a rather tame example of my problem with mainstream media “reporting” about “science”. Here is a much more common sort of example, with a reporter from “The Atlantic” hyperventilating about “warp drives” and travel to Alpha Centauri in two weeks. (Note to those who [...]
I haven’t posted anything about my ongoing effort to complete my first novel in a while. Things have been moving forward, in large part due to the weekly novel writing workshops I’ve been taking. I’ve truly learned a lot about writing novels in those workshops. Turns out that there really is a “craft” aspect of [...]
When my father-in-law passed away one item from his garage collection of life’s detritus fell into my hands. It was an old bamboo fly rod. Since I am the only fly fisherman in the immediate family, it was naturally assumed that the fly rod would find a home in my fishing collection. Of course I [...]
I’ve been in lots of disputes and debates over the years about Islam, Islamism, Islamophobia and Islamic jihadism. In every case I will be lectured by well-meaning libertarians and leftists who say that the world is simply bubbling over with calm, moderate Muslims who are lumped into the jihadist set by ignorant Islamophobes who believe [...]
So I had a dream. In real life the Cosmic Daughter is about to graduate college, and the Cosmic Son is about to graduate from high school. And I haven’t been in college at all since about 1986. In the dream I was taking college classes, and the Cosmic Daughter was too, but the Cosmic [...]
Everyone knows that I am a firmly committed agnostic when it comes to theology, but on occasion I entertain the arguments for and against the existence of a supreme deity that created the universe and all that is in it. Today, as I was preparing and eating my breakfast I think I hit upon the [...]
I assume all of my readers are familiar with the story of Prometheus. In Greek mythology Prometheus was a Titan, one of the race which preceded the Gods of Olympus, but who survived the battle between Zeus and Cronos when Zeus and his siblings overthrew the Titans (as the Titans had overthrown Uranus before them). [...]
So I’ve been thinking about life in general lately. I’m about to go on vacation and the first thing we will do when we land in Kentucky is head to a funeral. Those things always tend to focus your mind on your own life, for at least a few minutes. Also I had the experience [...]
I’ve been engaged in some discussions about the nature of government, the obligations of citizens and the future of this country, and some of those thoughts might bear repeating here so that others can contemplate and comment on them. What obligations does a citizen have towards the welfare of other citizens? Is the concept of [...]
You are looking at the oldest known human-built structure. This monolith and wall is part of a temple complex recently uncovered in Turkey that is 7,000 years older than the Pyramids, 6,000 years older than Stonehenge, and according to our current understanding of human cultural progression, older than agriculture by almost a thousand years, and [...]
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