You don’t know how important something is until you suddenly have to do without it. After two weeks without hot running water in the house I have come to a whole new level of appreciation of that most divine of modern amenities. Indeed I feel I could suffer any other depredation with equanimity, if I could just take a hot shower. Continue reading
All the buzz in the online atheist community lately has been about the challenge xtian apologist Ray Comfort has issued to Professor Dawkins for a debate. No, not really. I can’t think of any reason this would be worth watching. Ray doesn’t have a very good grasp of his sides’ arguments and resorts to the sort of trump cards that dead end debates at the slightest provocation. While he does seem to be making a living at being a “Defender of Christianity” his efforts along those lines are laughably amateur. Professor Dawkins on the other hand knows his material backwards and forwards, and the other side’s too. A debate between the two of them would be like a locomotive debating a car stuck at a crossing for right of way, with the car too stupid to realize it had been utterly destroyed. Continue reading
I feel strangely compelled at the inception of this blog to pontificate a la a dedication of a new monument or the groundbreaking for a new hospital. Since I don’t have any hopes for this blog in a commercial sense I must admit right now that this blog, and what I write, isn’t really for you the reader. It’s for me. In part it’s a kind of therapy. It’s the outlet for all those things, that because of concern for people’s sensibilities and my sense of what constitutes politeness, I have left unsaid. It’s also, one day, for my children. A kind of legacy I leave them so that they may know more about my life’s journey one day.