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Monthly Archives: December 2014
What I’m Hoping to Achieve in 2015
The question may be asked, what am I intending to do this year with my blog. What’s the point? I recognize, at the outset, that I’m mostly preaching to the choir. It’s not likely that my blog will change any … Continue reading
What’sa Matter with Staten Island?
Today, Congressman Michael Grimm, he of the felony tax evasion conviction and the threat to throw NY1-TV political reporter Michael Scotto “off a balcony” for questioning him about a campaign finance investigation, actually agreed to resign from Congress. I guess … Continue reading
On Year Without God Turned a Pastor Around
Today I came across an interesting little story about former Seventh-Day Adventist pastor Ryan Bell, who the beginning of 2014, made the highly unusual New Year’s resolution to “live for one year without God.” Apparently it turned him into an … Continue reading
The Mystery Obscures
I was sitting with my new friend on her living room couch, and I say to her, “you’re not a witch.” Yes I am, she says. You’re not a witch, I say. If someone can be a Christian or Muslim … Continue reading
Shameful Rhetoric, NYC Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association
It was just before Christmas so it may have gone unnoticed, but Pat Lynch, the President of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association claimed that NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio had “blood on his hands” for the gangland style execution of NYC … Continue reading
Christ’s Mass in Context
Today is Christmas. But not actually Jesus’ birthday. That’s because no one actually knows when Jesus was born. It was not on December 25, and it was likely not in the year 0 A.D. More likely somewhere between 2 and … Continue reading
Legal Analysis of the Ten Commandments
I was thinking about the Ten Commandments from the perspective of a lawyer. And from that perspective, they definitely leave somethign to be desired. I mean, let’s look at the most common (but hardly only) version of the Commandments: I … Continue reading
On Life Without a Body
Yesterday I wrote something about the Wicca tradition, Christopher Penczak, and a book he wrote on the foundations underlying certain beliefs, among other things. In his book, Penczak wrote: Most mystical cultures recognize that consciousness goes beyond the physical realm, … Continue reading
A Wicca Yuletide Festival
I have a new friend who is a Wicca. A witch, so to speak. On Saturday I accompanied her to a Wicca (or if you’re from Boston, “wicked”) yuletide celebration up in the wilds of Southern New Hampshire. But let’s … Continue reading
Folding like a House of Cards
If the brouhaha over the latest Seth Rogen and James Franco film “The Interview” proves anything, it proves that the North Koreans have no sense of humor. None at all. I mean, if the United States government hacked a film … Continue reading