“If you were really committed to solving this problem your agency would readjust its operating procedures to meet my particular needs, and my inability to benefit is a sign of your lack of sincerity.” I’m calling this emotional embezzling.
On Reading Don Quixote
For the most part people today read Don Quixote because they are told that it is a classic, the first modern novel in any European language. Reading it becomes an obligation of being a well-rounded student of the humanities, and this cultural assumption stands in the way of engaging with the text.
Blood Moons, Asteroid Impact, and Prophesy
If Swift-Tuttle were to collide with the earth, the result would be massive extinctions, but a smaller object with similar properties, exploding over the Pacific Ocean, would produce effects in Europe and the Middle East that approximated the description in Revelation 6.
Why I Save Old National Geographic Magazines
It is easier for me to access Thomas Condon’s (died 1907) original manuscripts on Oregon paleontology, housed in the University of Oregon’s rare book collections, than it is to get at my own research data recorded on magnetic tape for use by an old mainframe computer in 1971.
On Poetic Inspiration
My central idea involves a resonance between the years 535, 1315 and 1815 created by stupendous volcanic eruptions that cause abrupt global cooling, massive mortality and disruption of human society, followed, after a significant time lag, by reorganization according to new principles.
The Republican Senators’ Letter to Iran: Treason or Realism?
The letter does bring into focus a very real problem with American government,.. In a nutshell, that problem is that overt political control of the White House and Congress changes over a short time period, and not in synchrony.
Google Translate: A Universal World Language?
At present computerized translation programs are best at rendering factual material like patents and business communications, but they are constantly improving. Perhaps some day they will be able to handle literature and spiritual concepts.
Putting the Brakes on “Obamacare” – Obstructionism or Prudence?
The immediate effect of implementing the bill will be to direct the Federal Government to pay some undetermined but undoubtedly large sum of money directly to insurance companies to subsidize health insurance for younger people who lack employer benefits
Egotheism
The admonition to pray for those we dislike prompts the author to speculate on praying for people who would be offended by being objects of prayer, because they have rejected your concept of God in favor of one that reinforces their own egos.
My Worst Nightmare – Live
A series of foul-ups ended up with the author realizing a common nightmare scenario, teaching a class wearing nothing but her underwear.
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