When we fly we put up with an awful lot of caca that there is no reason to tolerate. You need to arrive at the airport 1 or 1-1/2 hours before your flight time. Add an extra half-hour for international flights. That's a big dose of extra time. On a short flight like LA to San Francisco, it more than doubles the time. Even on a long flight like ( Read more... )

This is actually part of an occasional series of posts about prophecy and prayer ( Read more... )

Abe Lincoln said, "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time." This makes for a great aphorism, but it has a great big logical hole ( Read more... )

As I write this, we are still seeing reverberations from the Israeli raid on the Turkish ship, Mavi Marmara. A convoy of Turkish ships, allegedly carrying humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, refused to stop for the Israeli blockade. Israeli soldiers boarded the ships to inspect the cargo. This was done "peacefully" (without fighting, deaths or ( Read more... )

This is not some gay-bashing rant. The question is, if sexual orientation is (largely) genetically determined (as I believe it is), then how can an interest in only members of the same sex still be around.

Unfortunately, this can't be a real serious scientific discussion.  For that, you would have to go to studies published by real geneticists and ( Read more... )

I have 3 main pieces of financial advice to give:

First, and most important, go to a bookstore and buy a copy of The Richest Man in Babylon and read it. If you can't afford to buy a copy, go to a public library and borrow one; use interlibrary loan if they don't have a copy. If you can't read the whole book, at least read the Wikipedia article.

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I think the word is being overused, and that's unfortunate. If we call everything we don't like "terrorism", then ( Read more... )

For me, at the moment, the good news and the bad news is the same: My weight is the same today as it was in mid-October ( Read more... )

Back in the 1970s, when people were really worked up about the war in Vietnam, some anti-war protesters started doing things like lying down on railroad tracks and chaining themselves to gates, to block shipments to and from factories that made stuff for the war. It probably seemed a "logical extension" of civil disobedience to the protesters, but ( Read more... )

Anser is the latin word for goose, and one of the two major genera of geese. Sub-anserine is a neologism, a made-up word. If I say somebody is "sub-anserine", I mean that he "doesn't have the sense God gave a goose."