Our overcast day turned stormy, so it’s a good thing I pulled dandelions yesterday. The neighbors might’ve thought I was just being an overanxious gardener, but in truth I was trying to harvest enough of the roots to get me through the week.
Inspired by a book called “Healing Teas,” I’ve been trying to have a […]

Ben Stein, who you may remember as the boring teacher in “Ferris Bueller” but who is really an all-around smart guy, gave a short interview to Money magazine (HERE) and expressed doubt that the economy is really in all that much trouble. But he did think there was a problem a lot worse out there, […]

I haven’t had much to say lately, and for once it wasn’t because I was all that busy. I just … well, I didn’t have much to say.
But on a weekend getaway I dived into a little pop culture, and if that doesn’t give you something to think about — and have fear and dread […]

After giving “Pilgrim’s Regress” a bit of a thumbs-down review, I’ve been finding that some snatches and excerpts of it keep coming back to me. Recently, I was having to do time-consuming, repetitive chores to get a stack of documents to print correctly, and I found myself thinking of what John’s angelic helper tells him […]

I’ve been enjoying a Teaching Company lecture series called “The Search for a Meaningful Past” that presents and compares different “philosophies, theories and interpretations of human history.” It’s been fascinating, but sooner or later when I’m listening I always end up realizing why intellectuals just can’t abide Christian orthodoxy — it spoils all the fun.

Here […]

I haven’t had anything to add to this Chicken Little category in a while, but Newseek brought it on themselves by invoking the apocalypse to begin this article titled “After we’re gone: If people were evacuated, the earth would flourish”:
The Second Coming may be the most widely anticipated apocalypse ever, but it’s far from the […]

Well, I haven’t had to add anything to the depressing Clone Countdown for a while, which is just as well. I don’t like feeling like there are a lot of people monkeying around with DNA, ova, embryos and life itself as if they were all TinkerToys. And I hadn’t heard anythig new on this front. […]

Went to see ‘300′ yesterday, the movie about the war of 300 Spartans against Xerxes I and the Persian armies. It’s based on a real battle — link HERE. Since it comes from a graphic novel, it has the composition, lighting and special effects that have really changed the experience of seeing these movies — […]

Continuing the series that I might title “Is all hell going to break loose or what?” here’s the prophecy of doom that touches on the global war going on between cultures. That could be almost any cultures, but everyone’s favorite if you’re talking about something really apocalyptic in scope isn’t Sunni vs. Shiite or Hindu […]

Back here when I saw “The Last Mimzy,” we just happened to see “V for Vendetta” the next night, and I realized that both movies allude — as many movies allude — to a looming crisis of humanity or society or culture. Is that merely the stuff of overactive creative types, or are these writers […]