Fight The Darkness

Strident? You bet. The truth broaches no compromise

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Month: July, 2008

Darwin, has your time come to go?

30 July, 2008 (15:11) | General | No comments

Light of reason for the week, on why people should refrain from using phrases like Darwinian evolution.

In short, Darwin did more in one lifetime than most of us could hope to accomplish in two. But his giantism has had an odd and problematic consequence. It’s a tendency for everyone to refer back to [...]

Don’t Poke the Tiger - or maybe you should.

25 July, 2008 (19:22) | General | No comments

There are days when my kids are just in a really rotten mood. Now, it’s not uncommon for my to verbally tease them, and, some days they take it better than others.
My wife, on the other hand, doesn’t always see the importance of teasing kids, and when they’re in their crankiest moods, she says to [...]

Me, Part V - I Try to Save the World Through Reason and Learn that Reason isn’t the Weapon of Blackguards

1 July, 2008 (21:08) | General | No comments

More auto-biography, but we’re getting to the end of the religious bit…
Back in the dark days, before the Internet was widely available, I used to run a BBS. (The Crunchy Frog BBS, if you’ve ever heard of it, was me.) It really wasn’t about anything in particular, although a certain bent towards Pythonesque humor was [...]