The Doctor Is In

  There are times when the feebleness of prose fails; when clarity of language and reasoned arguments cannot do justice to the cries of the heart. In the depths of our souls there are emotions, experiences, pain, joy which defy the pathetic limitations of mere words; whose depths and complexities, whose heights and depths, defeat [...]

  When waters break, their power spent in fine mist on the breeze, to thus retreat, and gather up and hurl again against those jagged boulders yet unfazed; What purpose, they, whose molten age in fiercest shapes did freeze, their faces polished now by salt and sand, igniting foaming fury upward raised? And why the [...]

  In a previous post, I discussed the nature of our current war against Islamic terror, and the importance of understanding the religious nature of this war. One of my commenters left a note expressing his dismay that I should have such a poor understanding of history, and asserted that Christianity and Islam were brothers, [...]

  WARNING: YOU ARE NOW ENTERING A SITE BANNED BY THE U.S. GOVERNMENT. Seriously, this is cool: this humble blog has been blocked by web filtering software at the Department of the Interior. How awesome is that!! Man, the place just ain’t been the same since Jimmy Watt left it, ya know? Of course, one [...]

  My recent post on the importance of clear-sighted understanding of Islam in the turbulence of our present world provided an opportunity to contemplate a number of issues regarding our current long war against those driven by this ideology. It is one thing to say that this is a war of ideas more than military [...]

  David Warren, in my opinion, is one of the better writers and commentators on the web. His pieces are well-written, concise, and always thought-provoking. His latest piece, called Comparative Religion, nevertheless misses the mark, in my opinion. The essay begins with an analogy of anger in the blind, using it as a metaphorical segue [...]

  Some products just get their hooks into you, if you know what I mean…

Do not move the ancient boundary stone set up    by your forefathers.         – Proverbs 22:28 –   Ancient wisdom: a sage injunction uttered in a time when simple shepherds and farmers parsed out land for grazing and grain, speaking to the prudence of respecting contracts, negotiated agreements with those with whom we live, to abide in [...]