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- Ponder: Religious Science and Scientific Religion
- Ponder: Political Husbandry?
- Student’s Opinion on the New School Menus? WE’RE HUNGRY!
- Some of my favorite shots from Fandemonium 2012
- Major Events and the Fibrofoggy
- FM: Persistence with Doctors Pays Off
- Fan Photographer?
- Good Words from a Fellow Fibro Foggy
- Fibromyalgia: Learn What YOU Have.
- Fundamentalist Fans Can Fracture Fan Genres
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Philosophy Archive
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Ponder: Religious Science and Scientific Religion
Posted on January 23, 2013 | No CommentsThe only thing stupider than injecting religion into science is injecting science into religion. I came to this when I watched a documentary that reported that many scientists were rethinking... -
Ponder: Political Husbandry?
Posted on January 23, 2013 | No CommentsThey should rename political science to animal husbandry; after all, its the study of how the herd gets screwed. Think about it… -
Fan Photographer?
Posted on July 9, 2012 | 26 CommentsIt was a late night, actually early morning of June 23rd, and I was charging batteries in preparation for a Fandemonium dance that I’d be shooting pix at after I’d... -
Fundamentalist Fans Can Fracture Fan Genres
Posted on January 23, 2012 | No CommentsThere’s something I’ve noticed over the years, fans of different genres like to look down on each other. Kevin Smith said words to the effect that a con is someplace... -
Third Verdict and Back to Death Row, 20 Years After Trial, Retrial and Acquittal
Posted on August 17, 2011 | No CommentsJustice is an interesting thing, I came across this case and had to boil down everything I read into this simple synopsis: US Army Master Sgt Timothy Hennis was convicted... -
Mike Rowe Shares Some Impressive Insights
Posted on January 7, 2011 | No CommentsSome may see Mike Rowe on Dirty Jobs and see him trying to do other people’s jobs, sometimes with mixed results. Something you’ll need to do is revise your opinion... -
Major Events and the Fibro-Foggy
Posted on September 7, 2010 | No CommentsIt goes without saying that Fibromyalgia puts some limitations on your life, there, I said it; but, with that said there are things that you can do to reduce your... -
What I’ve learned about me by reading through my sent emails.
Posted on September 7, 2010 | No CommentsI was looking through my sent emails the other day trying to find something I’d recommended to a friend so I could pass the same recommendation on to another one... -
Independence Day is the Holiday, the 4th of July is the Day
Posted on July 1, 2010 | No CommentsTwo hundred and thirty-four years ago several delegates stepped up and affixed their name to a document that essentially made them traitors to the crown of England. They signed with... -
Accept only Real Limitations…
Posted on January 6, 2010 | No CommentsFor example… the decision to streak or not to streak shouldn’t be based on how you look naked, but on real limiting factors; like, do you have bad knees and... -
Boothby’s (Infamous) Laws
Posted on November 10, 2009 | 1 CommentI’m really not sure how you’d classify these, but a long time ago I started tossing out stuff and assigning it a random number as one of Boothby’s Laws. Eventually... -
Writing and Me
Posted on May 30, 2009 | No CommentsReading and writing have always been an essential part of my life, some of my fondest memories are of doing both over the years. I discovered fantasy quite young, like... -
Random Thoughts on Many Things
Posted on May 28, 2009 | No CommentsNow I would never presume to have all of the answers, for that matter I don’t even have all of the questions. I’ve been fortunate in my life to have... -
My Wish for Life
Posted on May 28, 2009 | No CommentsLet me be as proud of my failures as I am my triumphs, I would not be the person I that I am without both, For failure has built my... -
Thoughts on Manhood…
Posted on May 28, 2009 | No CommentsI have a few snippets here and there of things I’ve thought about over the years, if anyone stumbles across them and likes them that’s great, but I’m not going... -
10 thoughts on love
Posted on May 28, 2009 | No CommentsI have a few snippets here and there of things I’ve thought about over the years, if anyone stumbles across them and likes them that’s great, but I’m not going... -
There’s a reason they say easy come, easy go
Posted on May 28, 2009 | No CommentsThere’s a big difference between thiking we know it all and actually knowing something. I don’t trust anything that comes easy. If it comes easy it can go just as... -
The Difference between Last Place and a Loser
Posted on May 28, 2009 | No CommentsI knew a kid we called Slats a long time ago, he was a distance runner and a pretty good one, but he had a few things going against him,... -
A Credible Hero
Posted on May 28, 2009 | No CommentsIn the great wealth of literature we find the hero, broad of shoulder, narrow of hip, keen-eyed, long flowing blonde hair, he rides faster, shoots straighter, is an expert at... -
J.B. Books: Silver Screen Philosophy from a Golden Age
Posted on May 28, 2009 | No CommentsJohn Bernard Books was perhaps one of the best characters to ever stride the silver screen, brought to life with an unapologetic honesty by John Wayne it shows a transition... -
The Perception Dilema
Posted on May 28, 2009 | No CommentsMuch like the mighty Al Bundy I played high school football, I don’t claim to have been a world shaker at it, for one thing I was a lot shorter... -
Paying the Idiot Tax
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Integrity First and Foremost
Posted on May 28, 2009 | No Comments“Nothing but good can result from an exchange of information and opinions between those whose circumstances and morals admit no doubt of the integrity of their views.” –Thomas Jefferson -
To Thine Own Self Be True
Posted on May 28, 2009 | No CommentsA long time ago I sat down with a young troop that planned to ask his girlfriend to marry him, he was happy and enthusiastic about the whole thing and... -
Thoughts on Lies
Posted on May 28, 2009 | No CommentsLies breed more lies and are found out in the end anyway. Tell the truth in all things. Lies are lower than thievery, a thief steals goods, a liar tries... -
The Incomprehending Heart
Posted on May 28, 2009 | No CommentsBlind is the heart that sees love in pity. Deaf is the heart that hears affection in rebuke. Deranged is the heart that finds desire in distain. Cruel is the... -
The Arena: A great Message
Posted on May 28, 2009 | No CommentsThis is a quote from a great philosopher, a man that were he given his due would be considered one of the great philosophers of history, Teddy Roosevelt. -
I Ask this Curse for Myself
Posted on May 28, 2009 | No CommentsIf empathy is a curse then I say bring it on full measure, better to care too much for the concerns of those so dear, than stand back aloof from... -
The Road Worth Taking
Posted on May 28, 2009 | No CommentsIf I am to fail let it be because I reached too far, not because I was afraid to try. It is better to be bent and sweaty and covered... -
A Truly Good Deed
Posted on May 28, 2009 | No CommentsThere is a bit of a good Samaritan in us all, We do things to help people, help them when they fall. But the best deeds are done without our...