It would be hard to not know that the Republicans and Democrats are fighting over the debt ceiling. Well, not exactly the debt ceiling. They both agree that the ceiling needs to be raised. The fight is over what will be in the bill that raises the debt ceiling. First of all, the fact that…
I rarely remember my dreams. Like, maybe once a year will a dream stick with me. It’s so rare that I wrote two posts about dreams I remembered (here and here). Lately, though, I’ve been remembering my dreams. They are waking me up 3-4 times a night. I wouldn’t call them nightmares, but they’re very…
For a long time, I’ve said the way to be healthy is to eat when you’re hungry, sleep when you’re tired, drink when you’re thirsty, and move around. The eat when you’re hungry part is basically intuitive eating. It’s the idea that we should listen to our bodies and eat when our bodies tell us…
A while ago, maybe a year and a half or two years, I saw an ad or a post looking for writers. I don’t remember where I saw it, but the idea behind it was intriguing. They were looking for 150+ people to collaborate on a single book. Each person would write one page. So…
Edouard Machery doesn’t believe that thought experiments have any place in philosophy. That’s about the hottest hot take you can make in philosophy. The ground of philosophy is positively littered with thought experiments. Some of those are thousands of years old and others are quite recent. Machery does have the credentials to make the claim….
I’m about three weeks removed from having covid. It wasn’t a severe case, but I felt terrible. My symptoms were congestion, cough, fever, body aches, and fatigue. The doctor warned me that the cough and fatigue may continue for a while after I got better. And the doctor was right, especially about the fatigue. I…
Today is my birthday. This got me thinking about the surprising lack of birthday songs, especially good birthday songs. Everyone knows “Happy Birthday”. It’s the reigning king and probably won’t be unseated anytime in our lives, but the line of succession dries up pretty quickly after that. Everyone has a birthday, and most people celebrate…
I read a story on NBCConnecticut.com entitled “Democratic-Backed Connecticut Bill Would Ban ‘Latinx’ Term“. The thing that caught my eye was that the Democrats were introducing the bill. Recently, Arkansas adopted a measure that bans ‘Latinx’ from government documents, but that was an anti-woke move by the Republicans. This is different. A group of five…
Let’s get this out of the way at the top: I think Breath of the Wild is a good game; maybe even a great game depending on what day you ask me. But I don’t think it’s a good Zelda game. At times, BotW feels like an open-world game with a coating of Zelda slathered…
Why are people always asking whether or not God exists? I’m tired of it. It is an unanswerable question. If there were empirical evidence, the evidenced entity would not be God, at least not in any recognizable sense. That’s why faith is central to religious belief. The funny thing is, the question of God’s existence is not important…
