Poland Stole My Girlfriend and Other Weekend Adventures

The plain fact is that Poland sucks. I blame this country for stealing Rebecca away from me, because it does not have adequate internet/cell phone service. Communication via phone card is impossible. How is a young fledging couple supposed to communicate in these kinds of circumstances? Not very well, it seems. And does Poland care? [...]

Life Unworthy of Life: On the Relationship Between Eugenics and Down Syndrom Abortion

This was a rough draft of a final project due for my sociology class. In it I try to demonstrate the relationship between eugenics and Down syndrome abortion, the moral problem that it presents, and a Christian response.
What if human life could be genetically improved? Imagine a world that is free of disease, disability, [...]

The Glory of the Canoe

One of the greatest inventions of mankind is the canoe. This weekend I was reminded that canoeing is one my favorite things to do, which in itself is sad because I haven’t done it since I was in middle school. I was reintroduced to the glory of the canoe on a visit to a relatives’ [...]

Love Poetry Fridays

People have been asking me “Where is love poetry friday?” The tell me “That’s the only reason I read your blog.” So here it is you hard-hearted blog haters!
Injuries
Kissing girl good-bye
Her head hit mine, made her cry
Next time will shake hand
And… that is all I can come up with. That’s why LPF [...]

Chicks Dig Fuel Efficiency

It looks like the days of attracting women via the ‘87 Trans Am are gone. Nowadays the guy driving the Toyota Prius is bound to get a flirty conversation from a female admirer. Who knew four-dollar-a-gallon gas could be such good news for the eco-friendly driver?
According to a study by GM, 9 out of [...]

Does Jesus Command to Love Oursleves?

Brennan Manning asks Can You Love Your Neighbor If You Hate Yourself? From an excerpt of his book The Importance of Being Foolish he writes:
In order to love our neighbors as ourselves we must come to recognize our intrinsic worth and dignity and to love ourselves in the wholesome, appreciative way that Jesus commanded [...]

Music Notes for 2008

There haven’t been too many exciting discoveries I’ve made this year in music, but there have been a couple of good songs I’ve been enjoying a lot. Here they are in no particular order.
Trying to Put Your Heart Back Together by Slow Runner. I love how the beat of this song is captured simply by [...]

Little League

Last night I went for a walk and stumbled upon a little league game playing at the park. It was very nostalgic and fun. Here are some haikus for the helluva it.
Nostalgia
Little league ballgame
Boy sluggers becoming men
Don’t grow up too fast!
Some Things Never Change
Catcher’s mask too big
The bulge in the chain link fence
Home plate needs [...]

Obama as Messiah

The Washington Times has an editorial comparing Barack Obama to Aimee Semple McPherson as a kind of religious celebrity, albeit of the leftist brand. Whether the comparison is apt is not as interesting as to what has actually been said about the first black presidential nominee:

In The Name Of Eugenics

My continued interest in eugenics beginning with my visit to the Deadly Medicine exhibit at the Science Museum has been supplemented by a comprehensive history of the movement in Daniel J. Kevles’ In The Name Of Eugenics. In it he details the origins of the idea that natural selection can be controlled to weed out [...]