So, there’s us and all the others
You can split the world in two—
A dichotomous arrangement:
Theirs are false and ours is true. [Read more…]
The Digital Cuttlefish
Since the music plays so briefly... Can you blame me if I dance?
So, there’s us and all the others
You can split the world in two—
A dichotomous arrangement:
Theirs are false and ours is true. [Read more…]
You mustn’t keep an open mind,
No matter what they say
An open mind is dangerous;
It leads your soul astray! [Read more…]
Where are the mutants? The losers? The freaks?
Intermediate forms, half-completed?
“Selected against”, as biology speaks,
The ones whom the “fit” ones defeated? [Read more…]
A million people disagreed (far more than I deserve!)
Which tells me very plainly, that I must have touched a nerve! [Read more…]
The reason humankind’s unique—
Or so, at least, I’m told—
Is, out of all creation,
Only humans are ensouled [Read more…]
The products that we buy today
Are often full of DNA—
Consumers must be made aware!
But then may buy them… if they dare! [Read more…]
You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
Al Capone
The truth is, it isn’t just pencils.
The truth is, it isn’t just pens.
The truth is, it isn’t just pictures and words,
As we look through the media’s lens. [Read more…]
Some places, you drive on the left of the road;
Some places, you drive on the right
There isn’t one side that is better or worse
(Though I’m sure some are willing to fight) [Read more…]
It took me a little while to figure out my own particular problem with what has become known as the #shirtstorm. Oh, believe me, I was and am on the side of those who saw the now-infamous shirt as problematic. And I am on the side of those who currently are insulted by it.
But… see, I used to run a daycare. I see things, as often as not, through the eyes of those who have not yet learned to be as cynical as I am.
It is all too easy to claim “free speech” from the point of view of a comfortable, privileged majority. To say “I have every right to wear this shirt”… which, while showing off an edgy sense of fashion, also happens to show off a message which will tell the next generation who is in charge and who begs for scraps. Anyway…
Twinkle, twinkle, little shirt
How I wonder how you hurt
Who is watching? Who is there?
Who expects that you might care?
Twinkle, twinkle, little shirt,
How I wonder whom you hurt.
Twinkle, twinkle, what you did,
How you change tomorrow’s kid
When she asks what can be done,
Glad you had your day of fun
Twinkle, twinkle, what you did,
How you’ve hurt tomorrow’s kid.
Twinkle, twinkle, no surprise,
Outer space was meant for guys
If she asks if she can play
Yes she can!… some other day…
Twinkle, twinkle, no surprise,
Outer space is filled with guys…
The comments to “I thought I saw a dictionary atheist” have been quite interesting. Much is predictable, but not all, and all are quite thoughtful. And looking at something I wrote some time ago, I am reminded that the good that atheism does–even dictionary atheism, I would argue)–is not a function of what (again, even dictionary) atheism is; rather, it is a function of what it is not. [Read more…]