Who Needs Philosophy? Part 2

Okay, so in an attempt to clarify (hopefully quickly) what I said in my first post and move this forward, I was going to use some trite phrase as a launching point and go from there: but life interceded and offered an even better illustration of my point about the...

Who Needs Philosophy?

I’m not sure when I first became conscious of the need for philosophy – or “a personal philosophy” – probably better termed as “ethics.”  I remember joining the Marine Corps in college and being conscious of what...

Politics and Fear

This originally started out as a post about “populism” and my disdain for the current (broken and fundamentally flawed) two-party system.  As I wrote, no matter how I tried, the length of the post just kept growing and growing and growing… ...

And now, for something completely different.

This is just funny.  Well, if you have my sense of humor, I guess it is.  You know how Google mail has those little links across the top of your Inbox while you’re trying to read or get rid of the Spam?  I saw this headline –...