HOLY CRAP! I am freaking out right now! The Wizards of NASA have discovered that real-life, actual, honest-to-the-universe PORTALS EXIST! I’m not messing with you. I mean, haven’t you known this, intrinsically, since you were a child? Weren’t you always looking for the hidden doorways to other worlds in little …
A sparrow’s swoop sometimes describes a sin curve A function hidden in flight path. A budding flower sometimes resembles A growth spurt, a movement toward love, Loosening belief systems or An unstructuring of a rigid frame of fear. Mirrors abound, all around, even a floating speck of dust mote Can …
Yes, we have entered the future. It is here. What will you do? How will you respond? When the floodwaters of fearmongering and emotions subside, will we be viewing a wasteland of over-legislated, penalization? Or will we calm down and choose to feel and be ok? All we can really …
Did you hear the latest depression-inducing news? The Western Black Rhino has been declared extinct. Yup. Dead. Forever. I just wanted to take a second to mourn. A moment of silence would be appropriate. Maybe an eternity of silence, to reflect what we’ve done to the species….maybe that would be …
Which one is more important? Which one does the UN want to draw more attention to? Which one deserves to be a nation? Apparently, garbage is easier to recognize, quicker to find its rights, and more deserving of the status of official state than the state of a people who …
I’m about to out myself as pure, white-trash at my roots – if I hadn’t already. This post is a tribute to my drunken father. Though he gave me much to lament and recover from, he also bestowed upon me so many positive characteristics and all manner of tidbitted-knowledge. Here’s …
████ Citizens of the internet. ████ The U.S. Government is trying to control and censor the internet. ████ CISPA has passed the House. ████ This draft law would allow that social media companies (Facebook, Google, Twitter, etc.) and others share all kinds of information (public and private) with the Government …
I’m done hearing about all the unmedicated crazies and the proliferation of guns and weapons. These are not the problems. Those things are problems, yes. They are correlated with our problems, yes. Yet, correlation, we know for sure, does not mean causation. The two are not equal. The real problem …
Freedom seems to be a problem for so many governments. Whether they are banning access to social media sites, like China is wont to do, or they are banishing people for speaking out against the regime, as Bahrain has shown proclivity to, abuses of power seem rampant. Some examples are, …
What a misleading title! I’ll tell you right now, the things I’m going to highlight here are actually VERY material. The philosophy behind materialism and a materialist worldview, however, would’ve never imagined these things. What the crap am I talking about? Here goes: Materialism posits that there is nothing that …
Lucky enough to be teaching a unit on the Ancient Near East exactly at the time that the so-called Arab Spring was in full force and revolutions were sweeping the entire region of the Middle East, circa January 2011, I decided to take some liberties with my teaching program. I …
GROSS. Gross gross grossity gross!! I honestly don’t even know if I can type about this. Really! But, I guess I’ll do it for you, dear reader. I’ll do it for the people who want to know what happens if you eat a lot of wormwood, milk thistle, clove, wasabi, …
I’m only partially kidding when I talk about Robots killing all humans in a revelry of mechanical domination. And, yes, I’m going to capitalize Robots from here on out because, let’s face it, they’re virtually their own life-form, at this point. Soon, there will be no stopping them. I have …
When I was four years old, I noticed my first bumble bee. I’m seriously serious that I didn’t know what it was or anything about it. I thought it was so cute, sitting on a bright dandelion. I wanted to get to know it better, so I picked the flower. …
This is my fourth year teaching since I graduated from a relatively prestigious Master’s program in the Pacific Northwest. This is my fifth year teaching if you also include the year I spent teaching undergraduates as a graduate assistant in that same program. This is my eighth year if you …
My ideal life goes something like this…. I will live on a small homestead farm. The farm will be one of many on a shared, cooperatively owned parcel. My house will be an earthship or other renewable-building style structure. I will have a stream or river running through my property …
It’s pretty nasty. If you’re reading this, you’re either brave, strong of stomach, or you’re wondering whether you have parasites and what to do about it if you do. I’m here to share my novice experiences of parasite cleansing with you. To start, I am interested in parasite cleansing because …
Have you heard about the ECMO Machine? It’s the newest, magical gadget in our bag of wizardry. Brought to you by the ingenious human drive to never die, it can apparently bring people back to life after being dead for an incredible amount of time. We’re not talking minutes here, …
There is a tightness in my neck that doesn’t go away. There is a radiating pain that travels slowly down my upper spine and back again. It feels somewhat like a dentist is using a large and slow drill to tear apart my scapula. And this is a good day, …
I consider myself at the height of skepticism. Lots of people don’t agree. Let’s look at the definition of skepticism: Skepticism: the method of suspended judgment, systematic doubt, or criticism characteristic of skeptics. People think that skepticism means to disbelieve something that has been generally determined to be crazy. Like …