The worst part about reading The Top 10 Antiwar Stories of 2005 may be in knowing that we’ve been there long enough for the war to start getting its own annual year-end lists.
Of course one could say that really we started this war back in 1947, so maybe we should have started seeing these [...]
Living as I do in the heart of the Protestant Vatican, I keep hearing about tithing, the notion that one should give 10% of one’s income to the church. Once I bristle past my first cynical reactions (regarding one opinion regarding the real purpose of religion), I start to think that 10% probably still is [...]
I think it was at approximately 2005-12-26 00:00:01 that conservative bloggers realized they could no longer wage their War on Christmas and so immediately returned to chewing on their favorite bone as abortion prohibitionists.
I personally abhor the entire abortion debate and am not looking to enter that fray here. But I want to address a [...]
A few people have asked me if I celebrate Christmas and/or if there is a Buddhist equivalent to Christmas. Before I get to this, I need to answer the related question “am I a Buddhist?”
The short answer is yes but the long answer is closer to “sort of”. I consider myself a Buddhist in the [...]
Perl, the first postmodern computer language
I’m not necessarily saying I like Perl because it’s postmodern. I’m saying I like it because when Larry is supposed to be talking tech, he uses the opportunity to riff about modern art and the Space Needle instead. The fact that he CAN do this almost proves his point…
NPR did a piece on the current lawsuit this morning, so it is interesing to read this piece this morning asking the same thing which pops into my head:
What’s wrong, for example, with encouraging teachers to raise the metaphysical issues without offering a doctrinaire answer to them? There really are questions of origin, aim [...]
Just came across a great site providing an introduction to the notion of “the commons”: Friends of the Commons.
I haven’t read and thus can’t endorse every word on the site but the 20K foot view seems very much in line with the geolibertarian ideas I’ve been promoting.
OnTheCommons.org seems to be a sister site that [...]
So on my first day at my new employer, Nathan asks if I have a blog. I say no, and he predicts that I’ll get one. Since I’d hate to disappoint, here I am : )
Of course posting my ramblings on the web is nothing new to me, but over the last few years, being [...]
Poet, philosopher, composer, and solver of all the world's problems. Oh, and I code perl at the day gig.
