Skeptophilia

A post I did a couple of weeks ago , about my view that creativity is a relationship (and thus inherently subjective, in the sense that each...

Ernest Hemingway famously said, "There isn’t any symbolism in The Old Man and the Sea .  The sea is the sea.  The old man is an old man...

Yesterday I had an interesting conversation with a dear friend of mine, the wonderful author K. D. McCrite.  (Do yourself a favor and check ...

British science historian James Burke has a way of packing a lot of meaning into a small space. I still recall the first time I watched his...

All my life, I've been pulled by two opposing forces. One of them is the chaos-brain I described in yesterday's post, which I seem t...

Before we start, what are your thoughts on calling certain people O verzealous G rammar R eporting E nthusiasts instead of Grammar Na*is?  O...

My post yesterday, about how the profit motive in (and corporate control of) media has annihilated any hope of getting accurate representati...

There's an unfortunate but natural tendency for us to assume that because something is done a particular way in the culture we were rais...