Jan 25, 2010

Charlie Brown TIE Fighter by Tom Torrey of GammaRayBots fame. Reminds me of my favorite Peanuts movie, You’re a Deadly Starfighter, Charlie Brown. (via...

Jan 25, 2010

Capitalism only works when it operates in the service of productive activity. Trading mere paper certificates in ever more "innovative" ways is not a substitute for making goods.

Jan 25, 2010

Inaction Comics!

Electric Sheep by the...

Jan 24, 2010

It was Thursday. The day was gloomy. The snow lay eight inches deep on the ground; and dry, crisp snowflakes were falling thickly from the sky when Father Seraphim began his conversation with me...

Jan 23, 2010

Congress: NASA, will you meet the 2020 deadline we gave you for tracking all the rocks in the sky with zero funding? NASA: LOL, oh wait, you were serious? ROFL NASA will not meet Congressional orders to track most city-smashing-sized asteroids in Earth’s neighborhood by 2020, an expert panel concluded Friday, because the government didn’t provide the money...

Jan 23, 2010

Take a stand.

Jan 23, 2010

Toward the end of the eighteenth century, St. Kosmas Aitolos foretold that a time would come when a person would have to travel for days to meet another person whom he could embrace as a brother. We are living in an age where this is already happening. Contemporary man, in his loneliness, experiences pathological anxiety, anguish and suffering. He is tormented and, in turn, torments others.

Jan 22, 2010

“If the tradition which claims that war may be justified does not also admit that it could be unjustified, the affirmation is not morally serious. A Christian who prepares the case for a justified war without being equally prepared for the negative case has not soberly weighted the prima facie presumption that any violence is wrong until the case for an...

Jan 22, 2010

Three experiments demonstrated that feeling wronged leads to a sense of entitlement and to selfish behavior...