Want to bait a hook intended for humans? Use the worm that turns on “improvement.” This worm will wriggle any old way you choose. Want to assess your life…what improvements have made you a better…
Browsing Category Society/Culture
Competition Is Cultural Inbreeding
So, against my better judgement, let’s pretend we can make do with this soul-crushing, resource destroying economy that we call “Capitalism.” It’s just a name that means something like a dogma (which can be considered…
Dogs Are Not People: They’re Smarter and More Communicative
Yesterday I skimmed a blog post by Jonathan Turley, a Georgetown law prof who is often on Olbermann talking about Constitutional issues such as our constant surveillance state erosion of civil liberties (“How the National…
2.2 Million Days of Lust, or In the Beginning
“Haven’t you ambition enough to wish that your husband should be something better than a Middlemarch doctor?” said Lydgate, letting his hands fall on to his wife’s shoulders, and looking at her with affectionate gravity….
Elmer’s, Wood, or Crazy? The Glue of Groups
Hot on the heels of my discovery that I am likely a very tiny member of a very tiny minority of people in this country because I find the massive number of God-Science sites utterly…
Seeking the Safety of Certainty: Totalitarian Minds in Religion and Science
Guiding my thinking is the very clear recognition that I am nearly always a partialist who at times spouts a partialism that upon reflection seems a tad embarrassing. I know some things fairly well in…
Young Earth Activists and the Gap Theory
Folks are working very hard to “prove” their “faith” is “scientific.” I had no idea it was such a massive industry. A Facebook comment today on this story, “Vi Simpson: The Woman Who Punked The…
The Hatefulness of Men
Out on the road today I passed by our local Planned Parenthood. There was a phalanx of college male humans standing and glaring. Mostly they looked aggressively stupid an the increased brightness of the light,…
The Locus of Measurable Social Replication: Opt OUT and Make It New
Public schools are, like America, relatively new in history. Especially schools as conceived as a public “good” available to all children. But one can readily argue that men in power never conceived of schools as…