Month: April 2004
Why This Skeptic Dislikes Snopes.com
Posted on April 4, 2004 in Compassion Myths & Mysticism
Must the result of debunking always be the suggestion how stupid people are rather than how creative?
Bullies
Posted on April 4, 2004 in Adolescence
Every one of my junior high school enemies was walking down Garden Drive towards me.
Lining up to be Cool Like Jesus
Posted on April 3, 2004 in Myths & Mysticism
The trouble is that we don’t know how to read myth.
Fool’s Equality
Posted on April 3, 2004 in IRC/Chat Micro-blogging
Few people want to be the meanie. What they want is a fool’s equality where nice, ethical people can be held to be just as nasty as they are
Jovinian and Pelagius
Posted on April 2, 2004 in Myths & Mysticism
How different the history of Christianity might have turned out if we spoke of St. Jovinian and St. Pelagius instead of St. Jerome and St. Augustine.
Fallow, Fallow, Fallow All….
Posted on April 2, 2004 in Uncertainty
Today’s word (in imitation of Frances Strand) is fallow connoting fog over a stubbled field.
Insert Trite Metaphor about a Corral Here
Posted on April 2, 2004 in Roundup
Here is what I discovered/stole in the course of my weekly rumblings through my blog links.
Goldilocks Robbed the Three Bears
Posted on April 1, 2004 in Culture Morals & Ethics
Baby Bear smashes what is left of his chair over Goldilock’s head.
Bad Poetry
Posted on April 1, 2004 in Memes
I could worm out of writing a set of rhymes by declaring that as boutmaster it would not be seemly to take part in the festivities….
