This disturbing NYT graphic allows you to count them up, all the deaths that billions of U.S. tax dollars can buy. It includes all of the deaths of those in uniforms caused by the conflict, not just the deaths of U.S. soldiers. It does not show the civilian deaths. "[S]adly,…
I caught this list of telltale signs over at De-conversion: Resources for Skeptical, De-converting or Former Christians. Here are a few items from the list: You see nothing wrong with stating “facts” about what God thinks as if you are His personal secretary. You complain about Christians not being allowed…
Personal anecdote time. Yesterday (Sunday) we went shopping. We stopped at Office Depot to buy a new chair. As we approached the entrance, I spotted a friend of ours and called her name. We gathered outside the entrance to chat. As we talked, a man approached us, begged our pardon,…
Jared Diamond is a professor of geography at the University of California, Los Angeles, as well as the author of “Guns, Germs and Steel” and "Collapse." In an op-ed piece in the January 2, 2008 NYT, he reports that American rates of resource consumption are horribly out of wack with the…
It is five days into the new year, and I am glad of that - 2007 was a particularly trying time for me, full of a lot of personal and professional changes and challenges. It is good to have a fresh chapter to write, a blank page upon which to…