“Not-a-Sheila’s”, How to Think About Them
We used to call them "female impersonators". I think that's still politically correct today although you almost never hear it anymore. Everyone wants to sound...
American Apologetics
An Introduction
"Apologetics" is generally defined as religious arguments originally used by early church fathers to defend what would eventually become Christian doctrine, to both non-believers who...
The Devil and Mark Twain, CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien
Late in life Mark Twain had to go on the road to raise money to pay his creditors because he'd invested poorly. In the process he probably...
Kimba Wood; There is no Joyrider’s Exemption on the American Civics Test
I’m tooling up I-81 in New York, going from Binghamton to Schenectady. Moderate traffic, speed limit 70, but as the old saying goes, I...
American Exceptionalism or American Freak show?
I recently watched an interview of Barack Obama in which he discussed the parallel views of reality in American politics. (It was undated, so...