Category: Enlightenment Warrior

Media Bias Who controls the media? Conservatives claim the liberals hold more sway over it, the liberals accuse conservatives of owning it. Both sides of the debate actually have very compelling arguments to make their case, but the debate over ideological media-dominance ignores other important dimensions of bias and fails to address the question of…

“Marriage” seems to be a nebulous concept on its own without sexual orientation entering the debate. Civil unions, marriages, lifepartnerships benefit communities by providing stability, and this benefit alone is sufficient for promoting them, but the debate over lifepartnerships extends into definitions that include the potential to produce viable offspring, religious requirements, appeals to tradition,…

Note: This is a series of three posts on campaign finance laws, my thoughts on the matter evolve through the debate. Repeal Campaign Finance Laws How do I like my crow? This thought has been rolling around in my mind for some time now. You see, I was one of those people who vociferously advocated…

Basic Humanism Somewhere in the list of articles in the “Hypotheses” section of this site is an article entitled “Scientism 2.0,” where I define my faith in Science as my closest estimation of a religion. My reasons for creating my own religion was that I had failed to find a School of Thought that mirrored…

I consider myself a victim of tracking. My sixth-grade elementary school teacher, completely on her own perceptions of my aptitude, placed me in remedial mathematics and average English for my first year of Junior High School (that’s “Middle School” for most of you out there). I don’t bare that woman any ill-will for passing such…

The invention of the printing press dramatically enhanced the average human being’s intelligence. Suddenly all the great written works of time were made accessible to any literate person regardless of income. Now the World Wide Web brings us all of this and more almost instantaneously. Instead of having to run to a bookstore or contact…

“I don’t know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God.” – George Bush Sr. August 27, 1987 British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s statement on military action in Afghanistan contained a sentence that struck me like a bolt from the blue on October 7,…

There is something very Zen about Einstein’s most famous equation. E=mc2. mc2=E. Energy and matter are related through the equal sign. They are like Yin and Yang, opposites that are different presentations of the same stuff. Keeping this equation in mind, which direction is our Cosmos moving? Observing the history of our Cosmos from the…

I used to enjoy reading Tarot Cards. These are a deck of cards that a person draws from randomly, placing them into various positions. Each card has a meaning and each position modifies that meaning. The idea is to think on an aspect of your life and the cards drawn into their various positions will…

Today was the big day. The endless polling, debates, rising passions, gotchas, issues, demographics, character battles, competing versions of the truth, water-cooler discussions, and plethora of other spectacular performances playing out in that tired old “circus” cliche have all come down to this… and I’m pretty sure this won’t be the end of it. While…

The meme gets hammered into our heads from all around us. We are a nation divided. It’s obvious when you look at the map of the Electoral College and see all those red and blue states. It might as well be black and white. Just look at the popular vote and you see a nation…

I received a great criticism of my website recently, which inspired this article: I enjoy the Scientific observations articles on your website, but you need to drop the political musings. If you were really scientfically-minded (sic), you wouldn’t be trying to influence your readers to see things your way. Your bias is apparent in your…