Humans are addicted to labels. In some ways, this is a good thing. It’s a shortcut. It’s a way of…
Category Culture
The religious aren’t the only ones who are locked in their belief system. There are a lot of groups and professions that also have a belief system and you go against that system at your own peril.
Stanford’s Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere has an open letter to the leaders of the world and is…
My wife came home with some new chips the other day. We’re always looking for a healthy snack. I have…
I recently saw a video in which Patrick Stewart talked about violence against women and post-traumatic stress disorder. So, here’s…
“You are all going to die.”
Yes, that’s Joss Whedon’s idea of an inspiring commencement address. He gave the 2013 address at Wesleyan University recently (transcript).
Aside from the snark, Joss does have a point. And his address was a really powerful one. I hope that the graduates remember it. I have little hope for that. I don’t remember my college graduation speech, but then it wasn’t Joss Whedon giving it either.
Here’s the thing, people might want to listen to him. He has done two impossible things in his life. He made a long running TV series about a little, blond girl who beats the evil instead of dying first, screaming all the while. Then he turned a failed TV series into a major movie. He’s done the impossible.
My granddad, in the lat 80s, bought a 1967 Mustang convertible. He drove it until he died in 2004. When…
Is there a time and place for an emotional argument? Janet Kagan wrote a Star Trek novel some few decades…
This latest major incident about firearms has sparked some thoughts in me. Regardless of what one believes, wishes were true,…
A friend on G+ asked this question: My discussion Q is: What exactly makes YOU who YOU actually ARE? This…