Because I would apparently rather hold baby mice than blog, I have two links about white privilege today rather than something original or at least about the topic of the blog as a whole. To be fair, the mice babies are much cuter than my faceless readers. The first is by a white female in a … More Racism
“Thou shalt not kill.” “Kill anyone who does any of this laundry list of things. (Leviticus 20)”
More links today. I’ll eventually have to do another post about pets, as I bought two black gerbils, our mouse died, my boyfriend bought three more mice, and one of them had seven babies. So now we have 17 pets, at least until one dies unless he decides to sell or give away one of … More Vaccines, Tribalism, Goals, and Rosaries
Rape is a serious problem in America. I think you’d have to be willfully blind to disagree with that statement. One reaction to this has been to automatically treat every woman who accuses a man of rape as though she must be telling the truth. This is, I think, an improvement over treating all such … More On Rape Accusations
After my previous post, I found another two articles related to the gun control issue, and I encourage you to take a look. One is by a person in Nebraska working to reduce gun casualties. An excellent goal, anyone would agree, right? Not the gun nuts of Nebraska, apparently, who like to always play the victim. … More Gun Control, Revisited
This is a topic where I’m not sure I know my own mind. I grew up with guns, and I was pretty proficient with a rifle last time I tried to use one. I enjoy hitting a precision target. I think it just makes sense that more people carrying concealed decreases the crime rate, because … More Gun Control
“I WAS going to volunteer for the Suicide Hotline a week ago, one of the screening questions is how do you feel about child molesters. I had to take an honest assessment of myself and question if I could be the one to talk someone who was feeling guilty of doing that out of suicide… … More Child Molesters and Suicide
The title makes it look like I’m talking about one thing. Nope, here are four links. First up is a post by JT Eberhard about a tweet. It’s a quote, attributed to Dostoevsky: “If anyone proved to me that Christ was outside the truth, then I would prefer to remain with Christ than with the truth.” … More Truth, Abuse, Fatties, and Church
I have four important issues to touch on today, listed quite obviously in the title. First up is coincidence. YouTuber QualiaSoup has a great demonstration of how and why a seemingly miraculous event could just be coincidence. I have little to add, other than to reassert his main thesis: an understanding of the mathematics of … More Coincidence, Metaphysics, Libertarians, and Rape
My boyfriend and I celebrated our 3rd anniversary of being together yesterday, so today I’m just going to share this image. It illustrates a lot of things, including that everybody is guilty of indoctrinating their child to some extent, especially if the child is young. Is it wrong to wait to teach children why … More Child Indoctrination
The Complete History of the Universe: A Personal Journey 