Incandescence

Gal, Try an elementary mental experiment: someone has invaded your home, threatened to kill your family, and you have a gun--do you surrender your weapon? This kind of hand-cleaning has ...

Nuclear proliferation is needed, not nuclear reduction. The logic of MAD still works, but it does not take a rocket scientist to realize that MAD would stop holding in a ...

LamaLama, So if I throw trash out of my window once, it's littering but not severe enough for real punishment. But two times makes me a "real" litterer prone to ...

Back to the topic... Let's just look at the Middle East. People are calling for a cease-fire in the interests of peace. But there have been more cease-fires in the ...

All, Before launching into the meat of this post, I'd like to state that these are not, obviously, hard and fast rules. You will likely catch me deviating from these ...

Folks, Global warming has been occurring ever since the last Ice Age.

LamaLama, It would behoove your position if, in a debate, you would tackle the message and not the messenger. Case in point, there is no technical language in my response, ...

Snoink, What you should really read is Marx's Das Kapital . Best, Brad

Hi Bjorn, I think your advocacy of Marx-by-itself is misguided. It is only through Lenin and Stalin that Marxism actualized itself in the world. Just as many, many Christians today ...

LamaLama Perhaps you are saying less than you should? It's been known to happen. Best, Brad

LamaLama, Much of the case against capital punishment does not rise above the level of opaque pronouncements that it is "barbaric," by which those who say this presumably mean that ...

LamaLama, Perhaps you need to brush up on your latest Texas death penalty statistics. A report released by Texas A&M University just in the last six months showed the beneficial ...

Cicero, I’m not sure what to suggest with regards to this poem. It has two distinct problems. (1) The narrator can’t remove her/himself from the proceedings for even an instant ...

Hi everybody, (In order of response...) Faith--your comments mean more when you aren't passing out on an ugly tile floor, catching the glittery colors as they sweep across the ceiling. ...

Basically, Nate, this is going to be something like a hyperstory? I'm very interested in seeing how this works out.