Dear fellow Muslims: a newsflash. No matter how much you complain, no matter how much you reason with your fellow citizens, no matter how much you ask them to recognize the threat you live under, in the end you are on your own. Until someone starts forcing you to wear crescent-moon-and-star patches on your shirts, [...]

Why do we hate? I really do enjoy Bill Maher’s show, but when he goes on his tirades about religion, he’s so emotional and (ironically) dogmatic about it, it really is like watching [insert religious zealot here]. On the one hand he complains that religions take their scripture too literally, and on the other he [...]

How can we be expected to live up to a phrase uttered by a scrawny, starving little man who rendered useless the broad sword of an empire? He said to open your eyes and find what’s wrong. To know the change you want to see in the world, and to become it. To start with [...]

I don’t believe in magic. I don’t care if you code-word it and call it a miracle. The reality of human existence is such that we’re subject to these systems, these symptoms of existence, these rules of entry. We live within them, by them, subject to them. They are as unavoidable as gravity and as [...]

Airplane travel never ceases to amaze. Not so much when doing the traveling, but more when dropping someone off at the airport. It starts innocently enough – you do your good friendly deed and swing by, stuff the trunk, speed off to the nearest port and hug them goodbye as you’re shooed away by that [...]

Don’t confuse the stopping of a war with the growth of peace. It is true that you can’t have peace until the fighting has stopped (by definition) and that has often been done by the sword, but peace is kept and spread through leadership, diplomatic action and economics, in today’s world. This is a new [...]

On pondering Isaac Asimov’s essay “What is Intelligence, Anyway?” – these thoughts came up… I think true intelligence has to do with being inquisitive and seeking to learn, and then being able to apply that knowledge creatively, in increasingly sophisticated ways. So it’s not that there’s any one gauge of intelligence, but it’s rather an [...]

History the culmination of layer upon layer of human cause of human effect Today the foundation on which we stand supported by sedimentary layers in an ancient canyon which layer do we praise for the height to which we rose? which layer do we accuse for the depth at which we are? The rough ragged [...]

Two things came to mind late last night while trying to fall asleep with little success. Maybe it was the Guaifenesin… It struck me that men (most of them being inherently dog-ish) categorize women into 4 clear categories. Mothers, Lovers, Sisters and Objects. Will have to work on that phraseology… With Mothers and Lovers it’s [...]

Everybody says you you must be you must be with somebody to be somebody and I could agree sometimes I do agree but then reality the reality of today sets in with a heart still looking for a better purpose for a profound direction for a just ear to speak into for the path that [...]