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2012 February 1 -- The Elephant in the Room  The USA has some good things going, but secular commentators don't see everything
2012 January 25 -- Dangerous Movies The ratings don't help with most kinds of evil
2012 January 21 -- Google's Ad They want your cookies
2012 January 20 -- Godly Joking Good jokes are funny, but somebody has to take the fall
2012 January 18 -- Buffett Is Business, Not Politics He understands American economics better than the politicians
2012 January 13 -- Politics from the Left The leftists prefer Romney, I (don't) wonder why
2012 January 3 -- Prehistoric Fiction Movie writers tend to have more skill than in TV

2011 December 31 -- Giving People Their Wish Be careful what you ask for, you might get it
2011 December 24 -- Gender Wars Women are different than men, and the women know it
2011 December 22 -- ... But Liars Figure Marketing lies published as news
2011 December 20 -- Loving What You Create The only way to create truly great products; even God did it
2011 December 19 -- What Christians Believe Sometimes the lay people are more Biblical than the theologians
2011 December 13 -- Fast Track to Failure Providing value, not glitz, makes a business successful
2011 December 6 -- TIME Again Why not to vote for Romney
2011 December 3 -- What I Actually Wrote They left most of it out
2011 December 1 -- Chimp DNA vs Human, Part 2 A Creationist prediction
2011 November 11 -- 11/11/11, 11:11:11 We like things to come out even, and God cares about details too
2011 November 3 -- Translating Gender There is no "gender-accurate" English Bible today
2011 October 25 -- Human Evils, Honestly Told I rarely see selfish cowardice accurately portrayed in fiction
2011 October 22 -- What's Wrong with 9-9-9 Herman Cain has not done his homework
2011 October 19 -- Obama's 2012 Competition They aren't as bad as Obama, but not far
2011 October 11 -- A Left-Leaning Text? Pseudo-research about the Bible from a left-leaning student
2011 October 10 -- I Believe In God God can do any miracles He wants, at any time or place He chooses
2011 October 5 -- Pray for Obama He needs all the help he can get
2011 October 4 -- Things Jesus Never Said And some that are not in this Feeler-friendly book
2011 October 1 -- Hysterical Fiction Writers of historical fiction cannot leave their modern values behind
2011 September 23 -- Taxing the Rich Buffet might be right, but they need to cut the spending even more
2011 September 17 -- Reasons of the Heart I eat to live, not live to eat

2011 August 29 -- DVD Woes, Again The players try hard, but the producers try harder to foil them
2011 August 25 -- Sound Scholarship Built on empirical data, but not necessarily consensus
2011 August 22 -- Muslim Extremists Blaspheme Their Own Prophet They do not believe their god is great
2011 August 16 -- Chimp DNA vs Human New evidence against a common ancestor
2011 August 1 -- Extreme Science A chimp+human hybrid experiment is deemed "unethical" because it disproves Darwinism
2011 July 25 -- Competing in the Global Market It's hard when you are only a cypher out of hundreds competing
2011 July 22 -- Three Systems Apple's OSX crashed more often than Mac or Windows, with less use
2011 July 20 -- Debate by Redefinition He who writes the dictionary wins the debate, but not to a fair audience
2011 July 18 -- Stop Now We need a simple and consistent way to turn every device off
2011 July 15 -- Touch Not If I never get another touch screen device in my life, it will be too soon
2011 June 28 -- Man vs the Bible Reports of the death of Christianity are greatly exaggerated
2011 June 24 -- Playing Video Games Using undocumented software is like guessing which weapon to use
2011 June 15 -- State of Misery Lightning took out all the phones, which I replaced in gasoline savings
2011 June 14 -- Adam & Genetics Science has not yet disproved the Bible
2011 June 6 -- Secondhand Lions Believing because it is true
2011 June 2 -- Bug Season I hate spiders
2011 May 24 -- iTrash I hope I never have to touch another iPod
2011 May 11 -- No News Nothing tells how and when bin Laden died
2011 May 5 -- Against Darwin and Government It's fiction, of course
2011 May 2 -- Alternate History I don't read historical fiction, I write it

2011 April 28 -- Smuggled A link to a book review
2011 April 11 -- Living My Religion Relationshipism gives a different moral response than 1+2C
2011 April 8 -- Wishful Thinking There are dangerous wild animals out there
2011 April 7 -- The Business of Charity Nonprofits are not looking for ways to spend vast sums of money
2011 April 4 -- Looking Forward Some books to read after the sci-fi runs out
2011 March 28 -- Sequel The first novel was better
2011 March 21 -- Deboning If you refuse to read the ads, they will stop paying for them
2011 March 17 -- Job Hunting True virtue is difficult and unpleasant, and few there be that find it
2011 March 15 -- Memorable I was never a blasphemer nor a persecutor nor a violent man
2011 March 9 -- Literary Inference, part 2 He knows little of human nature and nothing about governing
2011 March 8 -- Seasonal Affective Disorder The weather is gloomy, and so am I
2011 March 5 -- Literary Inference Addition of a co-author did not improve the story
2011 March 2 -- Democracy It's not "undemocratic" for elected representatives to do what they promised the voters
2011 February 28 -- Identity Group membership does not define who I am
2011 February 16 -- Sci-Fi Redemption A non-Christian redemption story to replace the message of the Bible
2011 February 12 -- Archeology and Dates The archeologists don't know
2011 February 4 -- Stuck Again The phone capriciously self-destructed
2011 February 2 -- Stuck in the Snow At least it's not Alaska
2011 January 27 -- "Hard" Sci-Fi Don't judge the book by its cover
2011 January 26 -- Nobility in Fiction It's easier to write (and more fun to read) about wealth and power
2011 January 17 -- Collapsium Science in support of fiction
2011 January 15 -- Non-Contender Fiction, written by a left-wing bigot in support of left-wing bigotry
2011 January 12 -- Bitter Cold I wish I were back in California
2011 January 5 -- Eyewitness Account The eyewitness deserves some respect
2011 January 4 -- Don't Ask They are not proud of their country, and neither am I

2010 December 22 -- Illogical Atheists, Part 3 We both grew tired of the caricature of me he invented
2010 December 21 -- Eclipse My big whoop for the solstice
2010 December 13 -- Creating Wealth The stock market doesn't, with some links to other essays
2010 December 10 -- JavaScript in JavaScript A link to my interpreter
2010 December 7 -- EMP Risk Assessment Most of us are more likely to die in a car accident
2010 December 4 -- One Second After The USA is probably unprepared for the economic disaster of EMP
2010 November 26 -- Illogical Atheists, Part 2 They seem unwilling to pursue truth
2010 November 22 -- Roots A tiny connection between my childhood and an otherwise undistinguished movie star
2010 November 18 -- The Trigger Good story idea poorly implemented
2010 November 15 -- Dialog and Honesty Without mutual respect for integrity, the dialog is over
2010 November 11 -- Knowing the Difference The atheists are not more moral after all
2010 November 4 -- Illogical Atheists There are moral absolutes, but the atheists can't figure them out
2010 November 1 -- Logical Atheists There aren't any
2010 October 30 -- Truth in Labeling I refuse to support deception by using ambiguous terms
2010 October 25 -- The Joy of Farming Caring for an aged parent without losing the farm
2010 October 23 -- Unregulated Monopoly No choice means bad service
2010 October 18 -- Tempting God Why should we expect God to protect us from our own folly?
2010 October 15 -- TMI "Too Much Information" as an excuse stands in the way of clear thinking
2010 October 5 -- Clue Deficit Disorder 50% decline is actually 10,000% increase
2010 October 2 -- Religious Novels The stories were good, except for the religion and the blunders
2010 September 28 -- Practicing Contentment God is in control, and God is Good
2010 September 27 -- Trumpeting Mediocrity The vendor persuaded me to not want to see any more of their flicks
2010 September 22 -- Ayn Rand Again ChristianityToday article agrees with me
2010 September 20 -- Trivia, Bible and Otherwise Filling my mind with what's important
2010 September 17 -- Peer Pressure Sci-fi author Bova goes with the crowd on religion
2010 September 13 -- Against Socialism, but Also WrongThe Fountainhead is historically and socially inaccurate
2010 September 11 -- Terrorist Act(s) The movie got it backwards
2010 September 6 -- Cheap Imitations by the Same Name The TV series Christy does not resemble what the wife of a famous preacher would have written
2010 September 2 -- Fiction about Religion Atheists don't trust themselves to investigate the core of truth in religion

2010 August 28 -- Sauce for the Goose Are smart phones and time-travel aliens more credible than a smart Creator?
2010 August 23 -- Religious Villainy (Fiction) You only see religious villains in fiction, not real life
2010 August 19 -- Fictitious Religion Irreligious sci-fi authors do not understand what they disbelieve
2010 August 17 -- The "Family" of God Empty words, because there is no commitment to church members
2010 August 12 -- Heinlein's Moon A good read, despite libertarian nonsense
2010 August 9 -- The Caffeine Connection "New & Improved" means it now tastes horrible
2010 August 7 -- The Language Barrier Machine translation won't save dying languages
2010 August 4 -- Suspending Disbelief Incorruptible heroes and moral relativism spoil the Lensmen fiction
2010 August 3 -- Pascal and Reason The philosopher believed reason drives faith; the Berkeley prof bungled his quote
2010 August 2 -- Relationshipism at Work (Vulnerability) Beth Moore is authentic, but not "vulnerable"
2010 July 27 -- Relationshipism at Work (Cinema) The best movies credibly balance the tension between Thinker and Feeler values
2010 July 23 -- Becoming a Third-World Nation Government power and religion trump truth and justice
2010 July 17 -- Azazel Remarkable moral values from an atheist sci-fi writer
2010 July 12 -- Whither Diversity Should I take down my politically incorrect blog postings, or leave them up?
2010 July 10 -- The State of Misery The local climate is toxic to video
2010 June 28 -- Thinking Clearly Surfing the internet makes people stupid
2010 June 26 -- The Diversity Lie They only want vanilla, with a variety of added food coloring, but no actual differences
2010 June 24 -- Maps GPS and the internet destroy access
2010 June 22 -- Ender The moral problem of the "good guy" beating up the bad guy
2010 June 18 -- Moishe Rosen The passing of an eloquent comentator
2010 June 15 -- Legalism  It means "Loves Jesus more than I do"
2010 June 5 -- Keyboard Woes They don't make them like they used to
2010 May 31 -- "B" as in "Badly Botched" Movie Don't waste your time on this one
2010 May 26 -- Marketing Figures don't lie, but liars figure
2010 May 17 -- Missing Children If there are no young people, the church will be dead when the old folks are
2010 May 14 -- Leisure Reading Different reactions to different books
2010 May 10 -- An Alternative to ObamaCare that is Not Evil a link to the People's Choice Health Care plan
2010 May 6 -- Debating ObamaCare Nobody is willing or able to defend an evil law in fair debate

2010 April 5 -- Sky Wars An Israeli propaganda piece made out to look like "high flying adventure"
2010 April 3 -- Censored The people still cussed in the 30s, but not on screen
2010 April 2 -- Sherlock, part 2 Conan Doyle's Sherlock was not a jerk
2010 March 27 -- Temptations Don't be the tempter, because Bad Things Happen
2010 March 25 -- Destroying Health Care ObamaCare also destroys the incentive for medical research
2010 March 23 -- Peering through the GloomEither Obama and his cronies are lying through their teeth, or else they are idiots
2010 March 20 -- The Nature of Education Education requires disaffirmation
2010 March 19 -- Edutainment I'm too honest to work under a mission statement that's a lie
2010 March 11 -- 24/7 What can I say? It's fiction
2010 February 17 -- Darwinism Impedes Research "Junk DNA" turns out to have important metabolic function
2010 January 25 -- Downside of Democracy It makes your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete
2010 January 13 -- Fake Religion The gods are not pleased with the sacrifice of a murder victim
2010 January 8 -- Heroes Fantasy, where the laws of physics don't apply

Index, 2003-2009

Log Files

2003
2004 Part 1
2004 Part 2
2005 Part 1
2005 Part 2
2006 Part 1
2006 Part 2
2006 Part 3
2007 Part 1
2007 Part 2
2007 Part 3
2007 Part 4
2008 Part 1
2008 Part 2
2008 Part 3
2009 Part 1
2009 Part 2
2009 Part 3
2010 Part 1
2010 Part 2
2010 Part 3
2011 Part 1
2011 Part 2
2011 Part 3 (current)