Top 40 Books
This isn’t a “best-of” list, it’s a rant –or rather, a lament. You never miss a good thing until it’s gone. When I was young, the (often #1 rated!) Columbus Metropolitan Library was the...
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Columbus Invitational Arts Competition 2016
I’m excited to announce that this weekend will be Independents’ Day Festival in Columbus Ohio’s historic Franklinton neighborhood. Bigger and better than ever, this year will feature local and national bands, artists and vendors,...
The Racial Draft
Originally posted 8/6/07, scroll to the bottom for update in light of current events. Note: The title of this essay is borrowed from a Dave Chappelle sketch imagining the possibility of changing racial allegiances....
I’m Not There
Reposted from 2007 I knew even before the house lights went down that I needed to approach this film in the right frame of mind. I knew not to expect a rational or linear...
Don’t Fall For the Okey-Doke
Cartoonist Scott Adams originated, and briefly wrote one of the best comic strips in the United States, Dilbert. Today, twenty-five years later, he continues to write it, but it’s far from one of the...
Chaos Monkey
Recently I attended a talk by a IT industry guru where he discussed Netflix’ trouble-making semi-autonomous software program, Chaos Monkey. Basically, this is a program they unleash on their production servers that randomly shuts...
History of Humanism
As a Christian Humanist, a categorization far too many people see as a contradiction in terms, I find the identification of the term “humanism” with modern secular humanism far too confining. If we take...
Stopping Terrorism and Mass Violence
Our current conception of terrorism and mass violence, is that it’s a huge anomaly, a bizarre occurrence, and that it somehow spreads, like a virus, through a mysterious radicalization process. That may be true,...
Philosophical Conceptions of God
NOTE: This post is based on my own similar post on Stack Exchange. Philosophy is often associated with atheism, reflecting the fact that many of the most famous recent philosophers have been vocal atheists....
Attn. Rep. King: Non-European contributions to civilization
Recently US Representative Steve King of Iowa asked, out of what I think we can assume is a genuine and unfaked ignorance, “where did any other subgroup of people contribute more to civilization [than Western...
Dangerous Days, the Pragmatics of #BlackLivesMatter
I have never had more fear for our nation than in the past week, and because of that, I’d like to speak directly, to whatever audience I may have, about what I see as...
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