What exactly is the “reason for the season?”

You never really ask the right questions until they don’t really matter.

I love science!

Today I got a tweet (via @EveDestiny) from @DanielFlorien:
Ask God, “What is the distance from the earth to the sun?” and you get silence.  Google, however, answers instantly.

Oh, man…  I had this all written out, and then the discussion was closed!  I couldn’t let it disappear, since I can never write the same thing twice.  So, this will be my notepad.

Forty years ago, a seemingly ragtag bunch of comedic writers and performers got together and formed what would be one of the most seminal troupes of comedy history. 

October 22, for all you date-watchers, is the expected return of Jesus Christ.  Well, of course, it depends on what your definition of “is” is.

Not long ago I was speaking to someone about the poetry I grew up with, and how much it meant to me – how it evoked such imagery in my head, and how some of it would go on to adhere to my personality, if not shape it.  Coupled with  my desire for this site, the two are matched well.  Here’s the first poet I thought of.

So, here’s a thing.  Today, one of the people I follow on Facebook posted the following update:
“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.” – Charles Darwin
One of his other followers posted this (almost eerily) prescient followup:
“…to argue with a man who has renounced his reason is like giving medicine to the dead.”  – Thomas Paine, The Crisis
Then, as if by plan, a theist …

What you come across when you surf a lot…..
Map of slave states (red) from WGBH’s “A Biography of America:”

Approximate map of the modern Bible Belt from Wikipedia:

Wow.