Beautiful Beltaine, everyone! 'Tis the (ancient) traditional beginning of the summer season, of flowers popping up, and that whole fertility thing. Put up the Maypole and let's do a little dance. And, in honour of Beltaine, I bring you Men Read More …
Is anybody out there? That's a question, I wager, that humans have been asking (in some form) for as long as they've looked up into the night sky. In 1963, a Soviet astrophysicist by the name of Nikolai Semenovich Kardashev, then Read More …
A few minutes ago (it's just after 11:00 am on this Wednesday morning, April 18, 2012), I had two very nice ladies come to the door to talk to me about god, the bible, and our place in the universe. They Read More …
Well, some of us celebrate . . . Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his Conservative government chose to mark the 30th anniversary of the Patriation of the Canadian Constitution and the signing of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms with a press Read More …
You may not know it, but you use Linux every day.
And so coffee has entered the gay rights debate. Wait. There's a debate? Apparently. And it seems that some people think the world will implode (and God will get irate) if gays and lesbians have the right to marry and Read More …
Over on FOX News, Geraldo Rivera was pontificating on the case of Trayvon Martin, the unarmed black teenager who was killed a couple of weeks back (February 26, 2012). Geraldo offered what he referred to as a "different take" on Read More …
Like others born under your sign, you are largely a creature of habit. You live your life following some kind of routine and you're mostly comfortable with that routine. Today, however, the vagueries of random chance, coincidence, and other events Read More …
Let's start with a little history, shall we? From the Wikipedia entry on St. Valentine: "The feast of St. Valentine was first established in 496 by Pope Gelasius I, who included Valentine among those "… whose names are justly reverenced among men, Read More …