The wife and I were listening to Focus on the Family last night during kitchen duties and they were discussing the new health care plan.  One of the problems they had with it is the idea that taxpayers may be paying for physician assisted suicide.  The conversation that followed was really a good one and [...]

Brad McFadden of the Two Blind Squirrels podcast and Bill over at the Thinklings have both done this Fifteen Books meme so I’m pitching in mine.
Rules: Don’t take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you’ve read that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes. [...]

So I took the kids out into the back yard on Friday night and we camped.  Tent, campfire (made in the lid of an aluminum trashcan suspended by cinder blocks), roasted marshmallows, the whole bit.  Things had been weighing heavy on my mind for a few days, perhaps longer, so I didn’t enjoy it as [...]

Police were called earlier in the week notifying them that someone was breaking into Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates’  house.  That someone?  Henry Louis Gates.  You see the professor is black and apparently that’s unusual in the neighborhood he lives in.
So the police arrived and words were exchanged and the aging academic was arrested for [...]

Beautiful shot thanks to Snopes, confirming my notion that Snopes pictures, especially ones that turn out to be real, are AWESOME!

There is a lot of fear/discomfort/propaganda regarding this resolution. I was invited to be part of a Facebook group called Parental rights and their main page says “This treaty, as harmless as it may appear, is capable of attacking the very core of the child-parent relationship, removing parents from their central role in [...]

According to Wikipedia the term gentleman originally “signified a man with an income derived from property, a legacy or some other source, and was thus independently wealthy and did not need to work”. Today it is merely a polite term for a man, regardless of social stature.
A post on a blog I found thanks [...]

XKCD for those, that don’t read it, is a sharp webcomic that usually focuses on the oddities of the geek culture, making broader social commentary at the same time. This one seems pretty much aimed at everyone (though if you hover over it at the XKCD site you’ll see who it’s really aimed at).
One [...]

Well it is indeed my birthday.  I had great birthday lasagna last night as well as a most awesome confection that was basically ice cream sandwiches layered in a loaf pan with caramel and whipped cream:

Leigh and I will celebrate tonight by going forth and playing pool/having a date.  If it’s your birthday too yeah [...]

Okay so there have been some pretty heavy theological questions posted here lately and while I don’t mind posting them and talking about them (I really enjoy making my brain think about deeper things even if or perhaps especially if it makes emotions bubble to the top) there was a time when I posted with [...]