Confessions of a Conservative Atheist
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Two geniuses, separated by their respective fields of study, their appearance, manner, and over two hundred years, but both kept detailed notebooks, jotting down their every thought. Beethoven, however, transformed his into hundreds of published works while Da Vinci wrote thousands of pages he kept almost entirely to himself. Few would debate that Leonardo da… Continue reading Beethoven, Da Vinci, and the mysteries of the creative impulse
I cannot be the only one increasingly tired with critics hailing recycled ideas packaged in slick ways as modern masterpieces, nor do I think anyone should be impressed that a movie made by a small army at a cost of at least a hundred million dollars looks good. Unless you are a recent arrival from… Continue reading “Barbenheimer,” Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, and the dearth of original ideas
Like a great sonnet of old, Bruce Springsteen uses the perspective of the speaker to establish a character that is both part of the story and separate from it. A verse about this father cut from the original song, but available in lyric form further illuminates a story of aging that is both universal and… Continue reading Springsteen’s “Glory Days” and the unreliable narrator
The simultaneous writers and actors strikes reveal the deplorable truth that Hollywood hotshots make thousands of times more than their less well known counterparts, who can barely afford to feed their families. Now, they want you to pay more rather than them making less. The entertainment world is reeling from back to back strikes that… Continue reading Hollywood hypocrites should practice the socialism they preach
There is no politics or religion at 100 plus miles per hour. There is no conservative versus liberal going up the Climbing Esses at VIR. Your religion doesn’t matter on the Rollercoaster. No, you might never drive a racecar, but racing is not the only community out there. Racing isn’t for everyone. I think a… Continue reading Everyone needs a racecar or something like it in their lives
One should hope that each of us aspires to learn more about the world and people different from ourselves, but the key to finding strength in your uniqueness is accepting it, not clamoring for meaningless representation and false promises. Last week, a transgender woman, Rikkie Valeria Kolle, was crowned Miss Netherlands, the first to win… Continue reading Transgender and the false promise of normalcy
Revisiting George Carlin’s prophetic 1992 performance at Madison Square Garden immortalized on HBO. From the philosophical to the profane, Mr. Carlin peered decades into the future... “You know my favorite part of that war?” The legendary comedian George Carlin remarked in one of his many HBO Specials. “It’s the first war we ever had that… Continue reading George Carlin: The legendary comedian was right even when he was wrong
There might have been a time when existence was so bleak and life so cheap, humanity had little choice except to hope for more, but that period has long passed and developed countries, at least, are world’s of plenty. As an atheist, I’ve been occasionally asked how one copes with the idea that this life… Continue reading An atheist’s case for optimism in the face of oblivion
However absurd life may seem at times, and certainly life and absurdity go hand in hand from our limitations as a human being to our precarious position in a universe that cares nothing for us, there’s always an excuse to party. I’m certainly not the first one to comment on the absurdity of human existence. … Continue reading This Fourth of July, celebrate the absurdity of human existence with a bang
An activist and a doctor appear before Congress. One insists that female tennis players are “stronger” than men. The other claims she can’t comment because she’s not a sports medicine physician. This is the peak of a delusion that has ramifications for everyone. Over the past month, not one, but two progressive defenders of a… Continue reading Welcome to the peak of our gender delusions
Confessions of a Conservative Atheist 