Well, I just finished my first week of my masters program. First impressions? Oh, my God, the eye candy!
Oh, stop rolling your eyes. Even if I were single I wouldn’t be interested in pursuing anything with the young ‘uns, but they sure are nice to look at.
“What!?” some of you might be thinking. “You’ve [...]

OK. I know I just said I’m religion neutral. I should probably make clear that I mean I’m neutral toward the abstract idea of religion and its place in human culture and society. Having said that I must also confess I think a good many “religious types” are full of shit and use the Bible [...]

I am, by and large, religion neutral. Few, I think understand their own belief systems and many do more harm than good. We are, for example, always hearing about how the Koran preaches tolerance and peace. That may be the way Islam is practiced in some communities in western liberal democracies, but that is certainly [...]

One of the trailers shown prior to “Another Gay Movie” was for “An Inconvenient Truth”, which reminded me of a post at Coyote Blog a friend pointed me two a few weeks a go, but which I didn’t have time to finish reading. Overworked as I am right now, I’m just this morning getting around [...]

Went and saw “Another Gay Movie” last night. I didn’t go with real high expectations. Teen sex movies aren’t generally my cup of tea. I watched about 20 minutes of “American Pie” before I got bored and turned it off. Still, when you work from home, sometimes any excuse to get out of the house [...]

An article over at the International Herald Tribune speaks of converts to Islam, in particular British converts. As one might expect, there seem to be many reasons for converting.

…there are widely varying reasons why people convert in the first place, including an admiration of Islamic texts and practices; a desire by women to remove [...]

I know there is are a lot of people who might think I’m in favor of this,” he said, “but you couldn’t be more wrong. My perfect world involves the fevered debasement of flesh and the absolute corruption of the spirit, not two happy people living out in the suburbs building a life together. Frankly, [...]

There has been some general grousing about the gay rights movement’s seemingly myopic focus on marriage. You can count me among those who question the apparent strategy of straining at gnats and crying wolf. “We must defeat the Federal Marriage Amendment!!” Defeat it? It was DOA.
Some have taken their grousing one step further. The [...]