There's a whole group of delightful recent graduates who are trying to start careers in this, the most miserable job market since they i...

I wonder if any clergy anywhere observed "talk like a pirate" day yesterday during services. if tea party candidates given full po...

Once a myth is seen to be a myth, it no longer is. That is, if you call a myth a myth it no longer functions as a myth, as a way to make sen...

David Brooks has an interesting column in which he essentially gives a platform for David Platt. Platt is a preacher who thinks that it is t...

Tonight my teacher wife said something profound. A person can't learn their strengths without doing their best. It's a curious thoug...

A few clowns short of a circus” ~Anonymous A "mistake" made repeatedly is probably better labeled a character flaw. One of my flaw...

It is getting harder to deny climate change, so here is a quick guide for the growing number of converts to the "there's no such th...

Too busy writing and working to write a blog post ... so, here's something to prove blog activity - a smattering of the tweets from Augu...

I am a little ticked off. I had a stock taken forcefully from me and I a offended that such a thing is legal. I am convinced that great stoc...

The Hindenburg Omen IS Scary (read here ) I'm sorry. I should take this seriously. My portfolio is again lying on the tracks while a tra...

Today we tried a new place for lunch - CBW. I ordered the fajita bowl and thought that my ordering was done. The following ensued: Cashier: ...

Happy Friday Or ... Litany BY BILLY COLLINS You are the bread and the knife, the crystal goblet and the wine. You are the dew ...

This week, Little Feat drummer Richie Hayward died. There is still, for my dime, no band that better realized the potential of a blues / roc...

The leading Renaissance thinkers were willing to adapt their minds to the facts but weren’t sure how to fully explain them. Although it took...

This is an excerpt of a toast I gave yesterday. (Or, more accurately, what I thought I might have said.) No one likes to admit this - partic...

"Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes." -Walt Whitman Resolution stops th...

"Wisdom begins with a definition of terms." - Socrates Joe Biden got a lot of flack awhile ago for using some coarse language that...

I might have the start of a new rap song: Al Gore got rhythm like an algorithm. The chorus would just have to have a line like, "The ma...

Few people know that the Bible is full of transcription errors. Christians don't believe it and non-Christians don't care, but throu...

The recent World Cup revealed a number of reasons that soccer is unlikely to ever catch on in the US. Perhaps the most obvious reason soccer...