Searching for Meaning

In a world filled with labor-saving technologies, home shopping, 24-hour news cycles and easy access to information, we like to think we have it pretty good. One thing which all of our advances have thus far failed to provide, however, is a sense of meaning. Of purpose. We have become accustomed to the easy and [...]

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If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck…

… it’s probably just another part of the giant government conspiracy. I was reminded this morning of the theory that the Apollo moon landings were faked. My inner conspiracy theorist loves this one, because there’s so much you can do with it. See, in the early 1960s, the Western World was stunned when Yuri Gagarin [...]

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Politics and Wheaties

I’m going to talk about politics a little bit here. Any and all Secret Service agents reading this can feel free to desist; I’m only planning to poke fun at the politicians. I sure as heck wouldn’t poke ‘em with anything else. Most of my political writings tend to be barely-coherent diatribes directed at the [...]

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To impeach, or not to impeach?

On the first anniversary of the American incursion into Vietnam, a handful of college professors and radical beatniks started to make a little noise, but were dismissed as nuts. At two years a few more had joined the movement, largely still members of the same “nut” crowd. At three years, with the introduction of the [...]

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