If Google with high altitude balloons and Facebook with high altitude drones do succeed in giving the entire developing world internet access some governments will do everything in their power to suppress it. Governments aren't too keen on free flow of information so...
From a comment by MS on an article about moral courage featuring a Nobel Prize winner: Much is made of the pursuit of happiness in US society but rarely do we talk about the two main types of happiness as delineated by ancient philosophers -- hedonic vs. eudaemonic...
Want someone famous to become a Christian? It's really easy, just build a time machine and go back to a time when no one thought the person was worth engaging. It will be an easier sell.
The difference between a mind that can play mind games and a mind that cannot is as big of a difference between a smartphone and a landline. The former can run all manner of apps while the latter is stuck just being a phone. I'm envious of people who can shift in...
A prominent Christian anarchist (who was actually at my closest friend from college's wedding) stated that one cannot be friends with someone with online-only interaction. I believed this until today. Yes online interaction might not be the ideal most incarnational...
The truly powerless people are the ones who are at the bottom of society but had a good education. I had a damn good education at Wheaton College (IL) and it taught me how to think critically (not that great of a thing for my Christian faith but I digress). The...
Two years ago we had a heat wave early March. This weather map above is from that heat wave. Below is a diagram of high temperatures (kind of like a tree ring) with the outermost years the latest. As you can see the March highs were in the eighties. If you are...
My cat died more than a week ago and the only thing I feel is numb. I even listened to Duruflé's Requiem and felt hardly anything and that usually brings out a certain amount of catharsis. I also sometimes think I see Frisky out of the corner of my eye. But then I...
You are in a city with crowded sidewalks. A guy in a crowd bumps up against you and his sunglasses fall off and shatter on the ground. He accuses you of running in to him and breaking them and then says they were $150 Oakleys and demands you pay him $150 to replace...
My cat is set to be put down today at three in the afternoon. It is strange to me that humans can't just go somewhere to be put down if they can't find a job. We see the unemployed being put down against their will in the T4 program Hitler started. But in most other...