Take Shelter Is anyone seeing this? Roger Ebert calls this film “masterful filmmaking” and I could not agree more. I am such a fan of Michael Shannon and this is one of his finest...

I was having a conversation with a fellow Mets fan the other day ( they are few and far between here in Phillies territory ) and I mentioned how it really is fun to be a Mets fan again. There is, no...

On Friday, I posted that I would start doing some fun stuff on Fridays on my blog. One of the things I mentioned was Hair Metal Friday. The idea was inspired by my favorite room at TurntableFM –...

I’ve been thinking a lot about changing things up around here. One new change I wrote about earlier in the week is posting weekly about the intersection of and potential conflict between science and...

I try to ignore National Review Online, I really do! But I stumbled onto some real nonsense today and I can’t let it go. How we talk about an issue affects how we think about it. Consider the...

My life has been shaped by many great and important things – my parents, my siblings, my wife, my kids, my high school economics teacher, the Bible and other great books, etc, but more often than...

I recently found myself in another debate about the age of the earth, and it occurred to me that I should write a series of blog posts on the subject. I know some who think the debate isn’t worth...

I’ve been using DuckDuckGo as my default search engine for several weeks now and I am very happy with it. I started using it mostly because I was displeased with the relevancy of my Google results....