The Root of Evil: Does Religion Promote Violence?

What the bombers’ motivations were exactly has yet to be pieced together and may never be fully known. What drives a young man to blow up strangers is most often a volatile cocktail of hormone-saturated ingredients, not always fully transparent to the bomber himself. What is known, however, is that a version of Islam played […]

aaroncanipe: Jim Alinder Driving through America is the antidote to sentimentality.  Ecclesiastes 2: I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards:I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits: I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees:I […]

From the Notebook:

Something I started, but haven’t been able to finish: America reclines in the shadowsStoking coals to keep off oncoming nightOh, but a few more hours til my eyelids burn;Til they droop from the dryAnd I must finally admit sleep Submit to sleepAfter dozing in my chairAfter waking with a broken postureAnd a gap in my […]