Steveawiggins

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• Hydrofracking

  

  Genies can’t be put back into bottles, I’m told. They are one of the many things that once done cannot be undone. I had that sense throughout my reading of... Read more

  Posted on 30 July 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Cowboys and Demons

  

  Cowboys Aliens finally came down into my price range. For movies I’d have to view alone, I generally wait until they appear for free on some online movie... Read more

  Posted on 29 July 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Good, Bad, and Human

  

  Mike Madrid may know more about women in comics than anyone else alive. I’ve commented about his Supergirls and Divas, Dames and Daredevils, and he’s now... Read more

  Posted on 28 July 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• New Gods

  

  The new gods are the old gods, apparently. Increasingly I feel myself to be in the old category, but I do glance at Wired once in a while in a vain attempt to... Read more

  Posted on 27 July 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Fear of the Known

  

  Social media has become the new reality. Not that rumor ever had much trouble before the internet, but now our cultural memes explode so fast that we have to... Read more

  Posted on 26 July 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Candle, Book, and Bell

  

  Having married into a family descended from the surviving relatives of women executed as witches at Salem, I have long been saddened and fascinated by the story... Read more

  Posted on 25 July 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• On Vocation

  

  “There ain’t no use in complaining,” Bryan Adams once wrote, “when you got a job to do.” If I may be pardoned from removing rock and roll from its love song... Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Once and Future Ape

  

  The original pentalogy of the Planet of the Apes franchise began a slow decline with Beneath the Planet of the Apes. Producing a movie per year from 1970 to... Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Dead See Scrolls

  

  Despite her ability to overlook my obvious deficiencies, my wife has good eyesight. Last week she spotted an article carried by the Associated Press entitled... Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Unity in Diversity

  

  In the Simpsons episode “Bart’s Girlfriend,” Jessica Lovejoy steals all the church’s money from the collection plate, leading Mrs. Lovejoy to call out, “Everyon... Read more

  Posted on 21 July 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Lobby Hobby

  

  I can recall a time when hobbies seemed less than threatening. Indeed, the idea was to relax, not to lobby. My hobbies—collecting just about anything you could... Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Pierogdolia

  

  One of the memorable scenes from Men in Black is when the Arquillian takes Gentle Rosenburg to a restaurant for pierogi. One need not be an alien, or even... Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Secular Sacred

  

  On a family walk in the woods, along came a spider. Actually, the spider had already been there quite a while, given the amount of work that its web represented. Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Forbidden Zones

  

  I grew up with talking apes. Well, I was actually about six when Planet of the Apes was released, but it quickly became one of my favorite movies. Read more

  Posted on 17 July 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Tower

  

  Photo credit: Daderot, Wikimedia CommonsThe urge to travel, speaking strictly for me, is the pursuit of sacred space. Over Independence Day weekend we traveled... Read more

  Posted on 16 July 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Equal Measure

  

  Far off in the woods of Wisconsin sits a seminary. In these woods, I’m told, wolves eat little girls. That seminary has for decades distinguished itself by its... Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• World Cup Runneth Over

  

  I’m not a sports fan of any description. I guess the message, “it’s just a game” sank in rather well as a child. Nevertheless, I was curious when some friends... Read more

  Posted on 14 July 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Truth Fully

  

  An article on science reporting on the BBC has me thinking about truth. Again. Truth is, of course, a philosophical concept. What it means is a matter of debate... Read more

  Posted on 13 July 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Stratego

  

  The idea is a simple one. When someone undermines, the very foundation of an idea is left with no foundation. We are taught not to undermine ourselves; for... Read more

  Posted on 12 July 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Working Dead

  

  Perhaps being born into and reared in a working class environment naturally predisposes me to the populist variety of entertainments. Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY