These ideas are half-formed, not yet fully explored. These words are extemporaneous, and I post them not knowing for certain whether or not I’ll agree with their meaning when I review them later. Perhaps that’s one of …

I've come to view the contemplation of ethics and philosophy as a sort of "mental training," a series of exercises that seem pointless and irrelevant until one finds one's self under extreme duress. Imagine a boxer goin…

Though I have opinions about virtually everything, the only view I have that might be construed as “controversial” is my personal brand of hyper-analytical atheism. I’m an amateur historian currently studying to be a pr…

The Christian Right—and its demagogues du jour, John McCain and Sarah Palin—seem summarily incapable of imagining an America that isn’t a de facto Christian theocracy. While we send boys to wage war against people decri…