Textuality

As of today, I am retiring Textuality permanently. The site will remain online, but it will no longer have new posts. I decided on my ...

The philosophical washing machine. It cleans dubious concepts until they look like "ideas you really ought to consider." Phil...

Which dummy is speaking? I recently posted on the human cruelty sanctioned by God --and, indeed, indirectly perpetrated by Him--in bibli...

James T. Kirk using the Postmodernism Translator to learn deep thoughts from the French. Over at Why Evolution Is True , Jerry was havi...

The Biblical World notes an interesting discussion over Israel's capture of Jericho. The story is well-known for the part where Jo...

Just discovered Sam Cooke's fine cover of the Dylan classic. I like what Cooke does with the accents. Well, I can't do polit...

Warrant sang that heaven isn't too far away. In reality, you have to transform yourself. Is heaven real? No, of course not. There...

My father, a strapping young 17-year-old in 1954, South Philadelphia. My father is 76 years old today. To me, he is the epitome of a m...

  Over at the Intelligent Design site Uncommon Descent , a commenter called Jerad has been asking what ID theory advocates for the origin...

The local paper reports : A Massachusetts man who pledged to make the last mortgage payment on his home with pennies has fulfilled that...

We are about five years and one month past the financial meltdown, when America's largest and most prestigious banks could no longer hi...

I mentioned recently that I was all "meh" on religion these days. It's true. I don't feel inspired to comment on matters ...

As we come to the end of the another quarter-year, I see that it is again a year filled with drama--mainly professional and academic dram...

Family fun: We write our own book. My middle child turned six years old this week. She's a very bright and sweet girl, self-assured ...

The first jazz album I really liked was Take Five by the Dave Brubeck Quartet. "Blue Rondo a la Turk," the opening number, sol...

Excellent! This past weekend, I was elected to the Executive Board of my local parent-teacher organization. The group supports enrichme...

Hey rabbi, check out the sexy boy in the third row. Crimes against children by adults who claim to live the word of God are not new. Ma...

This past weekend, I chilled out on the couch with my kids. We watched a program re-telling " Jack and the Beanstalk ." In this...

Among my goals for the summertime is to read and finish several books. In no particular order, here are the ones I most want to tackle: ...