Category: Enlightenment Warrior
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Happy Constitution Day
Working on a military base for six years has given me a certain reverence for the American flag. Many mornings I’ve watched the morning flag-raising from my truck as base police stop traffic to prevent it interfering with the ceremony, noticing those days it peaks briefly before descending to half-mast on remembrance days or the…
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EFF RIAA vs The People Report
Robotic Intergalactic Astro-Artists (RIAA) Let me begin this post with the following caveat: P2P Sharing of Copyrighted Music is WRONG. It is stealing, and there is no rationalizing our way out of it even though most of us, myself included, have done it from time to time. That being said, I’d also like to add:…
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Creationist Answer Wheel
Dear Creationist Friends, Are you tired of all those troubling questions Evolutionists are always throwing at you? Rebuking questions like, “What’s with all the fossils?” and “Why do we have appendixes?” and “Genesis chapter one and two contradict each other, which is the real story of creation?” can really push a believer to sell their…
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Anniversary of the 9/11 Tragedy of 1857
Today marks the 150th anniversary of a dark and tragic even in American history, when a group of religious fanatics brutally slaughtered unarmed men, women, and children. On Sept. 11, 1857, at the Mountain Meadows Massacre, Mormon fanatics murdered more than 120 settlers who were passing through Utah on their way to California. The Mormons…
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Letter to the Editor About Michael Vick: Vick shouldn’t play in NFL again
Heard last week on NPR’s “Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!” on what Leona Helmsley’s dog, Trouble, is going to do with the $12 million she’s inherited: “She’s going to buy a bunch of professional football players and angry them up.” After reading the letter to the editor “Anger at Vick disproportionate” in my local paper…
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Venusday Haiku: Flea-Ridden Feline
My Felis catus Has Ctenocephalides he itchy kitty For those of you who enjoy science and enjoy haiku, like I do (Rhymes! Ha!). The Science Creative Quarterly is seeking a few hundred phylogeny haikus.I submitted about two-dozen a month ago, and I recieved an e-mail this week thanking me for the contribution and assuring me…
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Mercuryday Links: D.I.Y.
In honor of the new, radical to the max web-comic-blog howtoons, I thought I’d post resources to the other DIY (Do It Yourself) Movement resources. We live in a society where producers tell us what we want, and too many of us surrender our individuality and get drawn right into their bullying tactics. The D.I.Y.…
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Venusday Haiku: Dermatophagoides Pteronyssinus
Dust mites eat dead skin Drink the water we exhale We inhale their poop
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Jupiterday Diatribe: Pluto is Still a Planet (Still)
Somehow in all the incredibly complex hubbub of getting this blog set up (ie. figuring out how to post), I completely missed the fact that August 24th was the one-year anniversary of that infamous day when a bunch of dimbulbs at the International Astronomical Union (IAU) decided to demote Pluto to non-planet status with an…
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Why I Stopped Pursuing My MBA
I have recently discontinued pursuit of my Masters in Business Administration. Accounting was fine, business law is fine, management science, IS for decision-making, and quantitative methods were all fine and dandy, but when I put all of these things together into the context of the modern business world, they suddenly stopped being fine. The business…
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Things are Getting Better
The Scientific Method (Bora Zivkovic has a Problem with this diagram) Something I’m often complaining about is “common sense.” Lazy people are always just throwing up their hands and saying “Duh!” when you ask them to justify some statement that sounds right and is taken for granted. It’s always important to check and recheck our…
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Letter to the Editor: Case closed on warming’s cause
This is a letter to the editor I published at the Daily Advance. Posted here for posterity, since they have no online archive: I applaud The Daily Advance’s new “Green Living” section on your Web site and Robert Kelly-Goss’s recent highly-informative article on global warming. However, the article did contain one factual error that needs…