ANCIENT RITES AND RANTS (AND IMMORTAL BULLSHIT)

That's a wish, not an observation. The way I see it, there's only one of two ways to see this one in. The choice is yours, of course...

Akhmal Shaikh, British citizen of Pakistani descent, took a trip to China one day, armed with nothing but a song he hoped to use to land a r...

Listen to this drunken old fool on the floor of the Senate, and tell me why I'm not right in insisting the worse thing the Republican Pa...

When Christianity took over the world of the Roman Empire, it did so practically without firing a shot. It was not a bloody military takeove...

Probably the most spirited, fun-loving, joyful cry for "Help" ever recorded, this song is the perfect opening song for this year...

You just can't make this stuff up. On top of that, a second drawing netted me the King of Pentacles, which I did out of concern I might ...

If you are wondering what to buy in the way of a Christmas present, look no further than this Wall Street Journal article which details som...

My favorite animal, the cat. I think I'll just arbitrarily designate it as the power animal of the year. And since it's Yule, this v...

For those of you interested in animals, you might want to check out this website by Wolf Run Park . Wolf Run is located in Jessamine County ...

Since Yule is the time for the celebration of the "rebirth" of the sun god and the cycle of life, it behooves us to contemplate wh...

blogger Rob Taylor of Red Alerts is a member of a group called Pagans Against Child Abuse , which works to prevent child exploitation and a...

Like Baltimore doesn't have enough problems with the blizzard, and with exploding water lines turning streets into rivers, and a mayor w...

Since Obama is going to probably get a chance to appoint at least one more justice to the Supreme Court between now and the time he leaves o...

Looks like the war on Christmas is with us once more, and the likely casualties are not going to be the churches or worshipers, or those who...

The climate change summit in Copenhagen didn’t seem to accomplish much, but there are several lessons we can take from it. One, most global ...

I think it’s high time we rethought our definition of the word hero, with an eye toward bringing it back in line towards what it originally ...

What better Christmas present could we ask for than a prematurely exploding dead terrorist?

Many people are assuming Barak Obama doesn’t really deserve the Nobel Peace Prize because he has agreed to send more troops to Afghanistan, ...

I never did get around to editing the novel I wrote and published on this blog, so alas it is stuck in first draft limbo. One of my resoluti...