Steveawiggins

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• You Viewing Pleasure

  

  I watch a lot of movies. Well, I used to before the pandemic stole much of my free time. We have a closet full of DVDs. At least they’re not VHS tapes. The... Read more

  Posted on 09 March 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• International Women’s Day 2021

  

  Changing one’s way of thinking is difficult. So difficult that we generally don’t try it unless we’re compelled to do so. One such compulsion is education. Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Not the Band

  

  One of my favorite weekend treats involves black-eyed peas. With a father from South Carolina, some of my earliest memories involve soul food. As a present-day... Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• J-Horror

  

  Photo by Lorenzo Lamonica on UnsplashJ-Horror better move over. There’s a new kid on the block.For many years those of us strange fans of horror have used... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Tomorrow’s Brainchild

  

  The voice of one person is very small. Even a guy like Donald Trump wouldn’t be the terrible threat to this nation that he is if nobody would pass on the... Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Looking Up

  

  A few days ago—maybe weeks—I posted on discovering David J. Halperin’s website. His book, Intimate Alien: The Hidden Story of the UFO, had been on my reading... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Weird Dreams

  

  It’s almost like we’re all part of a huge experiment, perhaps orchestrated from outer space, to see how we react to being caged. The pandemic and its... Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Women’s History

  

  March is Women’s History Month. My reading of actual history as of late has focused on the ancient Celts, so I confess to falling behind on modern women’s... Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Come People and Consider

  

  “Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible. Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Signal

  

  It’s difficult to tell signal from noise sometimes. Specialists in such things tell us that it’s easy to mistake noise for signal. An exception to this seems... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Winter Waiting

  

  The waiting, as Tom Petty knew, is the hardest part. Along the slow turning of the wheel of the year it’s now light enough to go jogging before work. Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Still Standing

  

  Investment. Time is an investment, and I recently invested in Stephen King’s The Stand. You have to realize that I made this decision sight-unseen. More than on... Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Politically Incorrect

  

  We’ve been dwelling so long in the materialist worldview that we’ve come to doubt evil. Oh, we still use the word, but we don’t really believe it manifests... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• What Have Faces To Do with Books?

  

  I don’t write much about it because I don’t understand it. Facebook, that is. I’ve had an account there for many years now and with the rapid changes they make... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Knowing Everything

  

  Of all the jobs I’ve held, being an editor is the only one where strangers send random emails trying to convince me of God’s reality. Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Critical Snow

  

  No two snowflakes, I’ve always been told, are the same. Far be it from me to question the collective wisdom of our species, but I wonder how this fact is ever... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Plants Will Lead

  

  The world just keeps getting weirder. Although I very much appreciate—“believe in,” if you will—science, sometimes the technology aspect of STEM leaves me... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Land

  

  It’s always a pleasure to find an author from whom you want to read more. It was my wife who told me about Ernestine Hayes’ The Tao of Raven. Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Keep at It

  

  Photo credit: ESA MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/RSSD/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO, via Wikimedia CommonsPerhaps it’s an indication of just how... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Too Fast

  

  In the Easy Reader book Hooray for Henry (available on Amazon for $768.57; that’s $12.60 per page), our eponymous protagonist Henry can’t win any of the events... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY