Many phenomena are too amorphous and evanescent to be reduced to a discrete concept or captured by ink on paper.  […]

RELIGION: ON YOUR OWN TIME, ON YOUR OWN DIME: What’s the use of good stories?  Why do we need them?  […]

“The separation of the ‘spirit of the Bible’ from the ‘letter of the Bible’ is an irreligious act.” –Karl Marx […]

GRASPING THE DIVINE: AN ACCOUNT OF CNVs & CPFs Of all the truths we’ve come to learn about human nature, […]

THE ART OF SELECTIVE PETTIFOGGING: CONSTRUCTING A CNV Strategically selecting tidbits of information that suit the anointed narrative: this has […]

A TALE OF TWO AMERICAS INTRODUCTION: Elsewhere, I have discussed the (absurd) notion that there is some necessary correlation between […]

Charles and David Koch are not unintelligent; they both received engineering degrees from M.I.T.  They are neither uninformed nor credulous.  […]

INTRODUCTION: Reciting the right-wing catechism is nothing new for right-wing politicians and political pundits.  Scripted talking points are designed to […]

For those of us who understand basic macro-economics (i.e. post-classical, Keynsian insights), it is astonishing that people somehow still have […]

THE NEOLIBERAL MILLERITES: A HOST OF HARRY CAMPINGS In 1994, a con-man named Harold Camping predicted that the “Armageddon” mentioned […]