by Douglas Marolla They’re toying with you. Do you see it? The teenagers do. One of the great things about being in the Bad Neighborhood school is we are able to speak freely. I became known as the “Conspiracy Theory Teacher” because I would talk about how I liked conspiracy theories. I never even tried…
Category: Topical and Timely
Keeping Christ at the Center of Christmas
by Voracious Reader I love Christmas. It’s always been my favorite holiday. Partly because it’s Christ’s birth (yes, I know it’s not the actual day of His birth but work with me here) and partly because the world just seems a little kinder this time of year. I love the Christmas lights, the carols and…
Boomers and the Beast
by Liberta1787 The Boomer generation is greatly despised for many valid reasons. But they hardly sprang full-grown from the brow of Zeus; generations of preparation were needed to produce this g-g-g-generation of self-congratulatory, blind, narcissistic, super-annuated children. If we do not see what transpired to create the Boomers, we have no chance to restructure…
The Holiday Question
by Ruler of the Doughnuts Its that time of year again. The holiday season is approaching. With this change in season from summer to fall and fall to winter you come face to face with the inevitable. “Is it the changing of the leaves?” No. “Is it the chill in the air?” No. “What about…
Pascal’s Wager
by Roguedash1 Preface: I had written this for my now defunct blog many, many years ago and thought it worth recovering from the Internet dustbin. I’m pretty sure it’s from the 2007 or 2008 timeframe. It’s provided unedited (except for a couple of typos). The pictures are new, though. * * * …
Collapsing Quality
By RogueDash1 Some three decades ago, I did a service project with the Boy Scouts at Disney’s Give Kids the World, their resort for kids with terminal illnesses whose literal dying wish was to visit Disney World. We were there to help with unskilled maintenance, and I got assigned to trimming the shrubs. The landscaper…
Cognitive Warfare – the ongoing battle for who you are.
by 303Bookworm “If traditional war centered on an enemy’s physical strength, and 4GW on his moral strength, the 5th Generation of War would focus on his intellectual strength.” Dan – tdaxp. Dreaming 5th Generation War In the mid-2000s, back when Fourth Generational Warfare (4GW) was the new hotness, speculation about 5GW kept think-tank types awake…
Slaughtering a Sacred Cow
by Ruler of the Doughnuts We all have our sacred cows. There are things in life that we think are so foundationally important that we can’t imagine a world without them. Sometimes these things are just cows, sometimes they are sacred, but we can make either cows or sacred things…