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There’s been a blog here for years, but something happened awhile back – the WordPress installation stopped responding, for some reason – and as I was deciding that it was time to jump back in and...
View ArticleMorality in Aurora
Over the last day or so I’ve been reading Kim Stanley Robinson’s 2015 novel Aurora, which I’d highly recommend. Robinson is one of the better hard science fiction writers of the last 20 or so years,...
View ArticleBrief thoughts on Zootopia
At the risk of sounding like a embittered old man, an observation on society: the word “cool” is one of those words to which it’s difficult to assign a specific definition, as it’s usually used as...
View ArticleApple and the FBI
Those that have followed the news over the last couple weeks are familiar with the the fight – currently on hiatus – between the FBI and Apple Computer. 1 For those that haven’t, here’s a brief...
View ArticleEaster and the Body of Christ
It’s worth noting that there are two different things in Christian theology are referred to as being the body of Christ: (a) The Lord’s Supper, the Eucharist, Communion, or however your particular...
View ArticleBig Data and What Reviews Mean
One of the interesting effects of bookkeeping for small business has been the gradual, and probably unintentional, replacement of reviews and critiques by experts by aggregated data from people who may...
View ArticleThe Optimism of Total Depravity
Sometimes optimism shows up where we didn’t think to look for it: Even though problems of theodicy are more troubling and more popular for debate, I maintain that for dour theologies, the problem of...
View ArticleBooks of 2016
Over the course of 2016, I’ve read quite a few books. What follows is a list of the books that I’ve run across for the first time that struck me as those that, in some sense, I would be most likely to...
View ArticleAgainst Trump
For many reasons, I have watched the recent electoral season with horror and frustration. Now that it’s over, I view the next four years with something closer to anger and disappointment. This is why:...
View ArticleThe Problem with Arpaio
One of the more interesting books that I’ve run across has been Critchlow and MacLean’s Debating the American Conservative Movement: 1945 to the Present. Unlike most books on politics, it doesn’t point...
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