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September 2016

September 03, 2016

Does “The Star-Spangled Banner” Celebrate Killing Slaves? Part I

As historian John McMaster put it, "Hardly was the Constitution a year old when England...

August 2016

August 04, 2016

The Troublesome Death of Korryn Gaines

The police first arrived around 9:20 am; the shooting took place around 3 pm. So...

August 02, 2016

Ellicott City: Climate Change, Land Development, and Angry Land Wights

But on Saturday, with no warning or prelude the Tiber rose 12 or 15 feet,...

July 2016

July 28, 2016

In Democratic Baltimore, Black Lives Don’t Matter

And this illustrates why the most urgent matter in 2016 is not to put Clinton...

July 14, 2016

Discordianism Through Its Literature

Magicians, and progeny the scientists, have always taken themselves and their subject in an orderly...

July 04, 2016

Against the Hagiography of Elie Wiesel

After Israel's invasion of Lebanon he used a remarkable excuse for his silence: "I am...

July 01, 2016

Affirming One Is Not Erasure of Another

There is a fundamental confusion at work in many people's notions about their identity: that...

June 2016

June 15, 2016

Can We — Should We — Forgive A Monster?

Of course, we won't do that. There's too much blood and too much anger. We'll...

May 2016

May 26, 2016

Is It Time To Abolish the Police?

Circuit Judge Barry G. Williams seems to have been incredulous, repeatedly asking, "Every time there...

May 18, 2016

An Anarchist Goes To Court

Thornley drew an interesting parallel between this power of the state and the mental and...

May 10, 2016

Religious Liberty: Something Pastafarians and Evangelicals Both Deserve

Now, basic concern for others and a reluctance to use state force against them ought...

April 2016

April 18, 2016

Render Unto Caesar — But Not My Flesh

There are things that must always be taken as beyond the authority of kings and...

April 14, 2016

“The Walking Dead”, Meta-Narrative, The Nature of Horror, and Human Sacrifice

Horror might be defined as the subgenre of speculative fiction that sets out to disturb...

March 2016

March 17, 2016

Election 2016: Did “Shutdown Culture” Just Give the Presidency To Trump?

Confused progressives have been celebrating the shutdown of the Trump rally as a victory. But...

March 03, 2016

Election 2016: There Are More Than Two Colors

But, gee, Patheos, since you asked for more politics...well. I feel a little clickbaity here,...

February 2016

February 29, 2016

Exorcising Trump

Kameyama asked several priests to exorcise the ghosts, and they came and did all sorts...

January 2016

January 06, 2016

Fun a Day: “Beggars in the Streets”

Some days I feel like I'm in a Woodie Guthrie song Some men'll rob you...

December 2015

December 31, 2015

The Star Wars Holiday Special and the Banality of Evil

But in the Holiday Special we see stormtroopers ransacking Chewbacca's family's home, throwing items off...

December 15, 2015

I Don’t Blame You For Being Scared of Guns

Guns, in other words, are supposed to be scary. That's been the idea from the...

November 2015

November 16, 2015

Horrible Events Have Causes

The anger may or may not be justified. The fear may or may not be...

November 07, 2015

Why Men’s Mysteries Matter

But initiation can also be a social phenomenon, in which the initiate is welcomed and...

October 2015

October 05, 2015

Cultural Appropriation: A Detailed Reply to a Critic

Thank you for starting off honestly with a declaration that you do not believe in...

October 05, 2015

The Cultural Appropriation Controversy: A Summary Reply

There are legitimate arguments that John could raise against what I've written, and we could...

October 01, 2015

The “Cultural Appropriation” Brouhaha

The term carries inaccurate (or at least very questionable) assumptions about the specific cases involved,...

September 2015

September 30, 2015

Capital Punishment Is A Barbaric Human Sacrifice Ritual

By the time you read this, despite two judges of the Oklahoma Court of Criminal...

September 29, 2015

The Buddha Was A Handsome Man — Should a Female Dalai Lama Be A Lovely Lady?

If he believes that the Buddha was a good-looking guy, who used supernatural means to...

September 26, 2015

There Is No Such Thing as “Cultural Appropriation”

Laziness, dishonesty, plagiarism and -- sometimes -- disrespect are failings to be avoided. But copying...

September 23, 2015

Prometheus, Makers, and Ahmed’s Clock

I've been thinking of Prometheus, thief and teacher, trickster and benefactor of mankind. I've been...

September 11, 2015

9/11: The Stage is a Sacred Place

I don't know if you've ever stood on a stage and been the focus of...

August 2015

August 06, 2015

Hiroshima: A New Way for Humanity to Sin

All throughout the massacres of the 20th century, but most especially on that day of...