‘the “darker side” of Mother Teresa’s religious activism’…

Believe it or not that sentence wasn’t written by Christopher Hitchens! It belongs to Annie Laurie Gaylor of the Freedom From Religion Foundation. They are organizing a boycott over a postage stamp of Mother Theresa as her Catholicism can’t be “separated” from her deeds. “Mother Teresa is principally known as a religious figure who ran [...]

Doctor Who Ringpullworld: Amazon Review

My review of the Big Finish companion Chronicles # 4.5 RingPullworld is available at Amazon.com here. You will note that the image at Amazon doesn’t match the image here. That is because they put “placeholder” images before the actual covers are released and whoever is selling the copies on Amazon never updated the image to [...]

You know if I got my first raise in my job…

…I think i’d notice it, but apparently my Oldest got a .25 cent raise a month and a half ago and never noticed it until this evening. Hey even having a job is an accomplishment these days. Getting a raise of any size certainly doesn’t hurt. Meanwhile I continue to get my own “raise” as [...]

The cut to the chase business on Abortion.

Yesterday I was listening to the pro-choice argument of a person I knew, the whole: “I don’t like abortion but I think I don’t have a right to forbid someone from having one.” argument. The gentleman who volunteered his thoughts sounding so reasonable so tolerant, asked my opinion on the subject. I had been talking [...]