Steveawiggins

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• WordPress Extortion

  I seldom post twice in one day. WordPress’ decision to extort customers into using their “block editor” unless they pay $300 a year for a business account is... Read more

  Posted on 02 October 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Belief and Its Discontents

  In this day of self-driving cars and instant, world-wide video conferencing, it is difficult to believe we still prejudice belief in God. Read more

  Posted on 02 October 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Scared Space

  

  It was dark. I often work in dim light since the computer screen backlights everything. I’d strained my back the day before, and getting into a standing positio... Read more

  Posted on 01 October 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Behind the Exorcist

  

  Some books from the 1970s are difficult to locate. Since that was some half-century ago I suppose that’s not at all unusual. One of those that I had been anxiou... Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Bbw

  

  It’s a measure of how busy I am when Banned Book Week has started before I realize it. Most years I make it a point to read a banned book at this time, but my... Read more

  Posted on 29 September 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Mother of Life

  

  Homeostasis is, if I recall correctly, the state of equilibrium that entities and systems seek. When we’re too warm we seek someplace cooler and when we’re... Read more

  Posted on 28 September 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Up in the Sky

  

  Superman stands for truth, justice, and the American way. Or least he did when I was a kid. One out of three ain’t bad. Considering the many exposés that have... Read more

  Posted on 27 September 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Eureka?

  

  It’s weird to feel yourself becoming a curmudgeon. Especially when it’s about technology. Someone asked me the other day if I could send an audio file of... Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• In Black

  

  When autumn rolls around my hankering for gothic literature ratchets up. It’s really my gothic sensibilities that make me watch horror films, seeking some kind... Read more

  Posted on 25 September 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Horse Senses

  

  Chief was a smart horse. The horse camp instructor told us that horses sometimes distended their midsections when a rider was strapping on the billet because... Read more

  Posted on 24 September 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Secretly

  

  There are not too many books that I would call epiphanies. I always lay down Jeffrey Kripal’s books with a sense of wonder and awe. Read more

  Posted on 23 September 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Being Equal

  

  With all that’s been happening lately—as 2020 shudders along—we find ourselves at the equinox. For some of us the weather has already been unseasonably cool,... Read more

  Posted on 22 September 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Believing and Seeing

  

  Our eyes locked for a moment. He wasn’t ten feet away. Of course, like all famous people he knew that his fans thought they knew him and hoped that he would kno... Read more

  Posted on 21 September 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Kind Animals

  

  How many people could it be? That’s the question a pandemic naturally raises. Last weekend my wife and I ventured to a Vegan Festival in Easton. Read more

  Posted on 20 September 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Large Projects

  

  Now, where was I? I suspect it’s the same with you. We’ve got so many things going that it’s difficult to keep up with them all. Read more

  Posted on 19 September 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Parable of the Dates

  

  Speaking of resurrection, a news story I saw on Agade, apparently originating in the New York Times, tells of dates. The kind you eat. Read more

  Posted on 18 September 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Index Fingers

  

  I’ve occasionally written about how authors obsess over indices, or indexes, for their books. These days most things are looked up electronically, but this... Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Remaking King

  

  Pet Sematary is (or was), according to Stephen King, his most bleak book. The first movie made from it (Mary Lambert, 1989) never reached the iconic status of... Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Proof in the PDF

  

  The proofs of Nightmares with the Bible are sitting right here on this laptop. If I’ve seemed distracted, now you know why. My life is unaccountably busy for a... Read more

  Posted on 15 September 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Documentary

  

  It all comes down to people and honesty. Given the bald-faced lies that come from the White House these days, honesty is at a premium. There are, however, alway... Read more

  Posted on 14 September 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY