Reading Time: 5 minutes OnlySky · The ground ball statistic: Hidden glory grounded in the seemingly mundane Lacrosse fans from all over the world will tune in to watch the NCAA Men’s Lacrosse Championship, featuring a Maryland team poised for history. But lacrosse aficionados will be attending to a facet of the game the neophyte will likely miss: ground […]
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Truth Social is going to be huge! Also, that stripper really likes you.
Reading Time: 3 minutes My job as a stripper was to lie. Well, mostly. I presented a fantasy—an illusion. I told customers what they wanted to hear, and showed them what they wanted to see. And I swear, I really did like some customers, but the ones I didn’t like never knew it. That was part of the performance. […]
Posted inHealth
Hearing loss, failing eyesight, and the struggles we try to hide
Reading Time: 5 minutes Let’s talk about discrimination. Not the racial type: I’m talking about the ability of human hearing to discriminate, to distinguish the all-important but often whisper-subtle edges of what most people experience as the familiar sounds of vowels and consonants. For some of us, consonants are especially hard to discriminate among spoken sounds. Their delicate wisps […]
Posted inCulture
In defense of fair-weather fans
Reading Time: 6 minutes OnlySky · In defense of fair weather fans | Jack Bowen The Fair-Weather Fan (FWF) is considered one of the most morally depraved individuals in (and out of) the sporting realm. They shift from team to team, demonstrating no sense of loyalty or allegiance, supporting whoever’s winning at the time, and ditching the loser they’d […]
Posted inCritical thinking
Thinking towards anti-essentialist ethics
Reading Time: 4 minutes Essentialism is antithetical to secular ethics. As a scholar in the humanities and social sciences, I teach my students about essentialism when I teach about identity. Essentialism, neatly defined by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic in Critical Race Theory: An Introduction, is the “search for the unique essence of a group.” They further discuss essentialism […]
Posted inPhilosophy
Tim Keller and the argument from morality
Reading Time: 10 minutes Reformed pastor Tim Keller devotes Chapter 9 of The Reason for God to regurgitating the Argument from Morality, which essentially states that without a belief in a Supreme Being, there can be no basis for moral restraint among human beings. This argument typically takes one of two directions: Argument 1: People who don’t profess faith in a […]
Posted inSecularism
European Court rebuffs religion, OKs painless livestock slaughter laws
Reading Time: 4 minutes Certain religions require that livestock animals be conscious when killed for slaughter. The European Court just ruled that states can ban that cruel rite.
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Article reveals Trump’s predatory lawlessness is lifelong model
Reading Time: 4 minutes A new article in Newsweek magazine shows not only that the president does not have any new clothes but is wearing what he’s always worn.
Posted inReligion, Secularism
Where Do Morals Come From?
Reading Time: 8 minutes Quite often I find myself in conversations with folks who feel that I left my religion simply because I wasn’t asked the right questions. Two of the most common questions I (still) receive are “How do you cope with the difficulties of life without believing in God?” and “If you don’t believe in God, how […]
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Getting to the Bottom of Climate Change
Reading Time: < 1 minute Casually mad scientist, Luna, has captured a seemingly innocent snowman. Perhaps he knows more than he seems to concerning climate change.