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The Terrorist on Ice
Way back in my glory days of grad school, I wrote an essay on the collapse of the Soviet Union. In this essay, I claimed that American culture had a profound impact on how the Russians perceived...
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My problem with the comments of Stephen Hawking
There is no doubting the utter brilliance of Stephen Hawking. The man is as close to a real life living brain as possible. He has done miraculous work in the field of cosmology and theoretical physics....
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Preaching the End … Again
Thanks to highly quotable blogger extraordinaire Clark Brooks, I just learned the end of the world is tomorrow. Which sucks, because I had a lot of stuff to do this weekend. But then again, if we are...
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Thoughts and Questions on Collectivism and Individuality
So I emailed myself a link almost a year ago with the intention of writing something analytically intelligent about it. Unfortunately, it was buried among other emails on baseball, cartoons, hip-hop,...
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Faith and Fear and Fear in Faith
I am going to take two completely different subjects and weave them together today. Only because I love the post heading. This past weekend, I finished reading Greg Prince’s fantastic book “Fear and...
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Talking about Beauty, Power, and Control
There was an interesting post on Wired.com the other day entitled “Why Behold Beauty? Because it’s Sociable“. I love this line: Beauty, or rather our perception of it (for only in an eye does does it...
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Ghosts from the isles and the Isles of Personality
Another night of talking about something neat I found online: Over at a blog called Under the Saltire Flag, Kei Miller writes about the strange pattern of Caribbean ghosts. According to folk lore, in...
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Give Me Something to Believe In
Here is another one from the binders from an Article and Essay class I took in Spring of 2002. Interesting to read where my mind was at when I was 24. (Note: Some slight grammatical edits made based on...
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Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and the Psychology of Insurgency
A few years ago, back in 2006-07, when I was first learning about the groups the US military has been engaging since 2001, I printed out a copy of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and scribbled some notes...
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Negativity made you speak when you spoke
One thing my trip out here has taught me is perspective. People in Afghanistan have nothing. A few months ago, I saw a guy with one arm and no legs pushing himself across the street on a skateboard....
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What if The Beatles never happened?
While perusing Amazon.com to see if The Beatles’ CD box set I bought in Afghanistan was in fact the bootleg version (of course it was), I found this interesting discussion: Supposing The Beatles never...
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The Best of Times
It finally happened. Kinda. Today I read a very creative and witty article by a writer for my former college newspaper, the FSView & Florida Flambeau. In his piece, The Great War: Logos, Uniforms,...
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Stability in Life’s Second Half
Stability (n) – the quality, state, or degree of being stable: the strength to stand or endure : firmness Most people go through some form of moving in their lives. Few people stay in one place for all...
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Life Experiences and Lessons in Being Nice
(This was originally drafted in June 2011, when I was only a few months into my first unemployment stint. That stint caused me to travel to Afghanistan to find work – a job that was a learning...
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