In the 1950 Walt Disney cartoon Motor Mania, Goofy stars as Mr. Walker, a model citizen who treats everyone with respect. But once in his car, he becomes Mr. Wheeler, “a power-obsessed ‘uncontrollable monster’ who races other cars at stop lights and views the road as his own personal property.” Then, as soon as he […]
From the Overflow of the Heart … the Motorist Drives? Read Post »
The “princess atheists” are at it again, attacking affronts to their sensitivities. (You remember the fairy tale of the princess and the pea. They knew she was the real, delicate thing when a tiny garden pea placed under a stack of mattresses still gave her a backache in the morning.) These are the people who
19 “Do you give the horse his might? Do you clothe his neck with a mane? 20 Do you make him leap like the locust?” . . . 26 Is it by your understanding that the hawk soars and spreads his wings toward the south? 27 Is it at your command that the eagle mounts
Must an Intelligent Christian Be a Theistic Evolutionist? Read Post »
The deliberate extermination of the female of our species is not the stuff of some dystopian novel or epic film, it’s a fact. Imagine if 160 million women were wiped out in the United States. You can’t imagine it, because that’s more than the entire female population of the country. Yet in Asia alone, the
Maybe the IMF’s Dominique Strauss-Kahn thought he was wearing the Ring of Gyges, a mythical piece of jewelry which allows the wearer to become invisible. It shows up in Plato’s Republic, where Socrates posed the question whether the owner could behave himself. His interlocutor, Glaucon, suggested that, once invisible, few could resist stealing things, taking
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There was a news headline last week that you probably didn’t notice unless you’re either a fanatical college basketball fan or a resident of Kentucky. The University of Kentucky was forced to stop claiming that its men’s head basketball coach, John Calipari, has 500 career victories, since 42 of those victories were vacated by the
Is Cheating the New Norm in Sports? Read Post »
