Confessions of a Conservative Atheist
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The Speaker continues her reign by gendering non-gendered terms, banning the words father and mother from the House rules, and inviting coronavirus positive House Members back to work, what could possibly go wrong with her in charge? “Amen and a woman,” so ended the opening prayer to start the 117th Congress. https://twitter.com/GReschenthaler/status/1345866081815187459 Foreshadowing the insanity… Continue reading Nancy Pelosi’s back as Speaker to preside over even more insanity in 2021
Today’s scientists rediscover the 50 year old work of a Hungarian biologist, Tibor Gánti, who labored behind the Iron Curtain, but developed theories that could upend our entire understanding of the origin of life The earliest known life forms on Earth are cyanobacteria, fossilized around 3.77 billion years ago in the Archaean rocks of Western… Continue reading Chemotons: The search for the origin of life takes a surprising twist
An 18 year old college student’s life is in tatters after using the n-word once three years ago, but the New York Times leaps to the defense of an actor and his wife who’ve lied for years about her heritage and profited from cultural appropriation Cultural appropriation is one of the cardinal sins of our… Continue reading Why aren’t we cancelling Alec Baldwin?
Free speech shouldn’t be up for debate, no single person has all the answers, and forgiveness and grace are essential What to say at the end of a challenging year? A wannabe pundit like myself has a few choices. I can share my predictions for 2021 for those who care: The media will remain obsessed… Continue reading Happy New Year! Three things to think about as we head into 2021
If you thought 2020 couldn’t get any weirder, look no further than the recent alliance between Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, and Democrats over increasing stimulus checks to $2,000 and the nonsensical Republican opposition They say politics makes strange bedfellows. This has never been more true as Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, and other Democrats come together… Continue reading Go, Bernie, go! Filibuster all night and ruin the Senate’s New Year’s Eve
The grievance and rage driving everything from erasing Abraham Lincoln to cancelling everyone we disagree with is unhealthy, but there is a better way to live your life and it’s certainly not toxic Stoicism is an ancient philosophy that has unfortunately fallen out of favor in recent years. Oxford Languages defines the term simply as… Continue reading Stoicism: Can we stop the endless emoting and give the ancient philosophy a try in 2021?
Two new studies show how the infamous population bomb goes bust, negative growth makes the world more likely to end in a long, slow, pathetic whimper, and almost every single climate model should be retracted, but I’m not holding my breath... In 1968, Stanford University Professor Paul R. Ehrlich kicked off the modern era of… Continue reading The experts are always wrong: A declining population leads to economic stagnation, upending 50 years of environmental wisdom and invalidating global warming models all at once
The data isn’t good for the lockdown proponents, if it seems like we’re stuck in a bad high school science experiment, that’s because we are, it’s time to stand up for freedom Another holiday, another opportunity to shame Americans. Christmas trees are still up in three quarters of the country, but CNN is already searching… Continue reading How are the coronavirus lockdowns working out almost 10 months in? Can we try freedom yet?
“There’s too many outlaws trying to work the same line” enters the lexicon as one of the Boss’s most timeless lyrics, especially in this era of endless politicization of everything including Bruce himself Full disclosure: I’ve been saying since at least 2002 that Bruce Springsteen will be remembered as much more than one of the… Continue reading At least 2020 had an awesome Bruce Springsteen album, “Letter to You” might be the most fired up thing ever released by a 70+ rocker and his band
You know things are truly awful when Ted Cruz and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez agree, and even Bernie Sanders is openly supporting Trump’s demand to do more for the American people, but there’s CNN to mess the coverage up During the initial 15-days to slow the spread, what feels like a lifetime ago back in late March,… Continue reading The Congress that stole Christmas, delivering a massive lump of coal to struggling Americans while lavishing billions on foreign aid
Confessions of a Conservative Atheist 