Sam Harris has created a simple, but effective template for how to believe in God that he fit easily into six tweets, which are shown below. I’ve added brief commentary to each step. 1. First, you must want to believe in…
The Good Woman with a Gun and Poe’s Law
The headline of a Slate article about a “Good woman with a gun” caught my eye this afternoon: Good woman with a gun shoots up Home Depot parking lot trying to take down suspected shoplifters The 47-year-old woman had a concealed…
What’s Next for Me: AIREX Markets
Several months ago, I blogged So long and thanks for all the fish about leaving my job at Dell Software (who had acquired Quest Software). At the time I said little about what I was planning to do, other than I was…
Mount Rainier Summit — My China Anniversary
Twenty years ago today, just about this time of day (slightly before 8 AM PDT), my rope team and I reached the rim of the Mount Rainier summit crater. I wrote in some details about that Mt. Rainier Summit Climb two years ago, on…
Miguided Welfare Recipient Drug Testing
How did you parse the title of this post? Did you apply the adjective “misguided” to “welfare recipient”? Or did you apply it to “welfare recipient drug testing”? It’s funny how we always hear about government being too big, about how we need to get government out of…
Up-goer Five Idea: Can you write with ten hundred words?
Do you know about the Up-Goer Five word making thing? It is an interesting idea to write using only the ten hundred most used words. It is not easy, but it really forces you to focus on what to say.…