Category Archives: General

I have been told the following Luther quote is unverifiable.

That was the title of a September 2009 article in National Geographic.  The most remarkable thing I found in this article was that they considered a 150 pound man to be the average.  That’s probably the average 5th grader.

“On Saint Patrick’s Day in 1946 six Nipponese defense counsel appeared at the captial’s war-crimes tribunal wearing green lapel ribbons…” (American Caesar, 474)

C-4 is a plastic explosive I was trained to use.  You could take a piece of this white doughy substance and safely heat your C-Rations.  But if you tried to put that fire out by stamping on it, the resulting … Continue reading →

I don’t think Simon and Garfunkel were praising the sound of silence in their song by that name.  After all, they have the line “Silence like a cancer grows.”  They don’t appear to praise silence; I do.

I finally put my finger on what bothers me about Intelligent Design: the argument that the design of creation points to or even proves the existence of a creator.  What bothers me is it’s not that intelligent.

“The #1 reason students give for rejecting the gospel is evolution.”  So says the flyer from the Alpha Omega Institute, and so said the Rev. Christian Tiews in a presentation at the Higher Things conference in Nashville. 

“Conventional wisdom,” the actual publica doctrina of the public is that a positive attitude toward illness helps in terms of survival and reoccurrence.  “Just believing” helps.  It is my contention not only that it doesn’t help physically but it hurts … Continue reading →

I can’t take credit for this observation; I can only show that Shakespeare knew it long ago.