Category Archives: General

“Conventional wisdom,” the actual publica doctrina of the public is that a positive attitude toward illness helps in terms of survival and reoccurrence.  “Just believing” helps.  It is my contention not only that it doesn’t help physically but it hurts … Continue reading →

I can’t take credit for this observation; I can only show that Shakespeare knew it long ago.

It seems that the 1968 “God is Dead” headline in The New York Times is not the child of philosophers gone amuck but of theology gone awry.

What to do when you are completely wrong?  I didn’t realize this till the two comments below.  I could just remove this post, but the damage may have already been done.  If you haven’t read this post, just skip to … Continue reading →

This is another one of those stories that has words one is tempted to use as double entendres.  I will resist because the story is about what is not being said.

“Mamma said there’d be days like this,”  I probably first heard that phrase when The Shirelles released the song in 1961 but I don’t remember hearing it till 1976.  It was March and I was in the mountains of New … Continue reading →

It started with the self-proclaimed “Digital Goddess” Kim Komando.  It was exacerbated by sports commentators saying this or that player was a “god.”  It burst into flames when the PBS cook referred to another as the “goddess of flambeau.”

Everyone knows Santayana’s quote that those who forget history are doomed to repeat it, but I prefer Russians to Spaniards.  A Russian proverb says, “Dwell on the past and you will lose an eye; forget the past and you will … Continue reading →

I was going to title this “St. Louis Seminary President Throws Fort Wayne Seminary Under the Bus,” but I thought it too long, and that was before I realized that wasn’t the worst of it.