Category Archives: On Writing
The King’s Speech
Before continuing with my commentary on John 6, I’ll take a quick break to give a review of a movie I watched earlier today: The King’s Speech. It’s [..]
Ode to the New Atheists
New Atheists like to put on a front they pretend heroic, To pat one on the back, and call the other a stoic But in this world they [..]
Evolved Irony
As I looked through the local used bookstore yesterday, I found a copy of Jerry A. Coyne’s book Why Evolution is True ((2009). New York: Viking). The jacket [..]
Review of The Making of an Atheist
In The Making of an Atheist (2010. Chicago, IL: Moody Publishers), James S. Spiegel engages in a task that is well-defined and focused, and perhaps maybe too focused. [..]
Inglorious Basterds
I watched Inglorious Basterds by Quentin Tarantino today. It’s his World War II “revenge” piece, giving us an alternate universe where several Jewish-Americans go throughout occupied France scalping [..]
Signs As An Example of Compatibilism
Signs is one of my favorite movies, largely because of the philosophical issues raised in the film. Since I’ll be addressing them, I should warn everyone right now: [..]
Edits Schmedits!
I’ve been editing quite a bit this weekend, which has been a lot of fun although it has also been hard work. On the other hand, some of [..]
Edits ‘n Stuff. (Stuff?) Stuff.
I was going to post part of this yesterday, but I didn’t. Stupid Bush. Anyway, turns out that I was a bit inaccurate in my previous post, as [..]
A Useful Writing Tool
A cool feature of the newest version of Adobe Acrobat Reader is that it has the ability to read a PDF file to you, using Microsoft’s text-to-speech capabilities. [..]