Section 5: The Death of Tragedy: Tragedy has had a long history and has always been, and indeed continues to be, of great cultural significance.  Who has not heard of Shakespeare ?  Even my own mother, who left school when she was 15 in 1932 had studied Julius Caesar (not ranked as a trage...

Last week, Dr. Tommy Mitchell of our staff spoke to a large group at the University of Southern Indiana in Evansville. This meeting came about due to the efforts of several student leaders on campus. Leading evolutionists Ken Miller and Eugenie Scott had spoken in the area in the last 2–3 weeks, a...

I wrote about this topic previously in A Reason, A Season, A Lifetime. People come into our lives for different reasons. The internet is a wonderful tool to meet new people. I met some of my best friends online. Perhaps because internet sites tend to call people “friends” people slide in...

Keeping the Recession from Leading to Personal Depression Maybe you’ve been laid off recently. Maybe, like me, you’ve been looking for a long time now. But whether you’re dealing with the fresh kick in the gut of a recently-lost job or the long and winding grind of an extended job ...

I want to be the new jesus and change to world. I have a good story that i think a lot of people will believe To do this i will commit a rape and a murder(possibly more then 1) cause this has a place in the story and so that people think i be the new jesus cause i want to compensate my mistakes(make...

A not so long time ago, when humans could still breath air without any device and not die from it, a little boy, named Steve, really wanted to have a kitty but, you see, little Steve was mentally challenged and every time he would ask for a kitty, his father would say:"Steve! You already know my ans...

Hoisted from comments: Joe S.: I'm a lawyer. I agree with Brian. The smoking gun has long been in plain sight: Yoo's omission of Youngstown Sheet & Tube in his torture memo. The recent release merely adds to it. However, as a lawyer, let me point out something else. It will be extremely hard to conv...

Orin Kerr is a proud and welcome member of the John-Yoo-Is-a-Bad-Faith-Actor caucus: Orin Kerr: John Yoo: "Now that I'm not in the government, part of my role, because I have a certain amount of expertise, is to try to keep the government honest." -- From an interview with the Orange County Register...

I was reading C.S. Lewis’ “Mere Christianity”, about how humans can never be perfect… perfect car drivers, perfect tennis players, or draw perfectly straight lines. Then came this random thought. Just how do we draw perfectly straight lines? Well, we do use a ruler, but how d...

Bob Sutton: The Enron Code of Ethics: Something Every Boss Should Read - My hypothesis is that the longer a code of ethics in a company, the more likely they are too be sleazeballs. As I've heard my father-in-law say many times, when people talk about ethics and morals more than seems necessary,...