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Thursday, June 8, 2017

Why college grads don't know how to think

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This does not mean what you probably think it does. Not any longer. Many Colleges Fail to Improve Critical-Thinking Skills  --  Results of a...
Friday, June 2, 2017

Robot priests - not fake news

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It's called BlessU2, a robot that offers words of blessings from the Christian tradition. John Daniel Davidson is less than impressed, ...
Thursday, May 25, 2017

The Official American Holy War Hymn

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I am a retired Army artillery officer and I agree with Laurence M. Vance:  "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" is blasphemous  (at  ...
Tuesday, May 9, 2017

Maybe the best war movie ever made is Russian

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I thought about posting this on Memorial Day weekend but the fact that White Tiger  is a Russian (post-Soviet, 2012) movie made me reconside...
Monday, April 17, 2017

The electronic nightmare scenarios

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  Massive power outage hits San Francisco, shuts down businesses, BART station, traffic lights A massive power outage in San Francisco on Fr...
Saturday, April 8, 2017

Just War and Syria Strikes

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Can we frighten this man into killing people only conventionally? United States armed forces, under President Trump's orders, conducted ...
Friday, March 24, 2017

Why you're wrong and I'm right

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Human reason and language probably evolved to enable moving up and down the totem pole non-violently. The vaunted human capacity for reason ...
Wednesday, March 1, 2017

No, God does not love you just the way you are

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It has become something of a meme in some circles of American Christianity for preachers and ministry leaders to tell their congregations or...