Mocking The Pagan
I learned a long time ago that part of what makes people of different faiths about to get along together is to not mock one anothers’ beliefs. If I wish tolerance for my own world...
Monthly Archive: April 2013
The Crow Road
by zic It seems like he’s always been with me, always a part of my life. But it’s not true. I recall that first day we met, I was in a now-defunct book store,...
In The First Circle Bookclub!
From each according to his ability, to each according to what is available. At the beginning of the essay in In The First Circle: A Novel (The Restored Text: The First Uncensored Edition) (henceforth “the...
The latest Olympic sport to get the axe is… wrestling?
My good friend Brandon Foose has pointed out to me that the Olympics has decided to end its 2700-year relationship with wrestling effective 2020: There are millions of people whose lives have been shaped by...
Safety, at what price?
A few days ago I was sent an interesting article by Mad Rocket Scientist, Regressive Effects of Regulation, authored by Diana Thomas at George Mason University’s Mercatus Centre. The paper’s central focus is on a trade-off that...
It’s actually not pronounced mänster
Yeah, so this bugged me. Over at Balloon Juice, DougJ says that he’s glad that pundit Michael Kelly is dead and wishes that he’d died younger. Anticipating the need for a straw man in...
Sports Fans and the Importance of Nationalism
The post I was going to write was about how I became a Louisville fan but upon proofreading it seemed a rather self-indulgent autobiography. So the short story: I grew up in this city,...
Saturday Morning Jukebox: Cartoons
For a cartoon, it actually had a pretty fleshed-out world. A bit of the Freak of the Weak plotting, but fun nonetheless. Of course, then I watched an episode a couple of years ago,...
Money and Morality: Are the Rich Different? The Rich Buddha Weighs In
Writer Matthew Hutson, Social Psychologist Paul Piff, and, ummm, me; at the Huffington Post Live, discussing whether or not the rich are different, and if so, how? I’ve always been partial to Hemmingway’s (apocryphal)...
Timing, Part 2
It is impossible to get a human being on the phone with my insurance company outside of regular business hours, Monday through Friday, 8:30AM to 5PM. Given the complex nature of our health care...
A Man Chooses. A Slave Obeys.
Ima tell you this story before I can tell you the next ‘un. (If you’re impatient, jump ahead to 3:24 on the video.) Way back in 2008, Irrational Games came out with a first-person...
Amirite?
Let’s say a man is working with a woman in a professional capacity. Let’s further say that, without necessarily wanting to pursue a romantic, sexual or any other sort of personal relationship with her, the...
Leaguefest – Update, Poll, and Planning
So here we are, two months out from Leaguefest, which means it’s high time to start getting into the nitty gritty of planning this thing. I’m happy to say that there was an overwhelmingly...
How Dumb Can You Be?
Seriously! How is it that there are so many adults who do not know basic highschool chemistry? From WFTV
Thursday Night Bar Fight #7: All Hail the Chief!
Good news, everyone! Finally admitting to ineptitude and corruption, each of the two major political parties is throwing in the towel and admitting that as a general rule they’re really terrible at picking candidates. ...
Roger Ebert, R.I.P.
Famous film critic Roger Ebert has died. He could be as scathing as any critic, but he also displayed a passionate love of movies and film-making more warmhearted and heartfelt than most others I...
A Lazy Thursday Tod-centric Brain Teaser…
… of sorts, anyway. A friend just reminded me of this list I made in high school and the common denominators he saw immediately that I didn’t. Reminded of it now, I found myself wondering,...
Charity, Nation-Sized
During our charity symposium, I argued that much of what we do for charity is really self-regarding, and we can know this because these acts are inefficient when evaluated for their help-giving power. For...
