Found a bit of a 2001 article about Lord of the Rings and the problem of evil. Not theodicy, but the more pragmatic question of how we can and should fight evil. SPOILERS AHEAD!But even …
Last night I dreamed that Alton Brown had adopted a disabled child that biologically belonged to the British royal family, and that therefore princes and princesses came over to his house all the time. "That …
Celestial Seasonings rooibos tea features, on the box, a very calm lion drinking drom a teacup. Leonard observed, "So he is a tame lion."
Mike Popovic's poem that he wrote for his daughter Zoe. I recall that he also illustrated it - where are the pictures, Mike?
The Poor Man encapsulates modern US political thought (the second half of the essay). If people say they are going to do something, and then they do it, and then they say they're going to …
Anyone who is reading this and who knows Kannada knows that the letter for "ma" is, by all logical standards, the letter that should mean "wu" or "vu." That trips me up all the time. …
TiVo Tips And Tricks. According to another hack page, you could set the end-of-program button on the TiVo remote to go forward any number of seconds between 10 and 99! 27 seconds? 60 seconds? The …
The Bookslut blog told me about The Twentysomething Writers Contest. Yes, I'd be giving up my rights to that essay in case Random House wanted to publish it, but it's not like my writing is …
Get Your War On makes me laugh bitterly. On a scale of "how bitter is my laughter?" where ten equals "I am laughing black, black tears," The Daily Show is around a five and Get …
House's second-most-recent episode, "Three Stories," was great. Then the season finale was okay. Just like with Star Trek: Enterprise. Three will make a rule. I'm warning you, Burbank!
