Author: Mark Egge

I realize that I’m overdue for a post. But, for once, I’m rather at a loss. So I’ll William my way through it, and see what gives. Here’s my observation of the week: in many smaller American towns, garbage is picked up, curbside, once a week by a strange, automated vehicle with an arm that […]

Since most of the Western media is to pathetic and/or sensible to reprint the cartoons that have the Islamic world up in arms, I’ll post them here:(Muhammad with a bomb-shaped turban) (Suicide bombers are told to stop becuase heaven is out of virgins) Understand, reader, that I love Islam. As I understand it, Islam is […]

I blame Google’s new blog search (http://blogsearch.google.com/) for the recent plague of spam-in-the-comments section. It’s super cool, but as we all know, everything cool has it’s not-so-cool side. Or maybe it’s just a coincidence that, within a week or two of the release of Google’s blog search functionality, I’m suddenly getting copious amounts of spam… […]

Look, I’m going to make this perfectly clear: I don’t believe in terrorists. Your game is up. The distraction is over. I don’t believe in the threats of nuclear proliferation. I don’t believe in the danger of tyrants with weapons of mass destruction. I don’t believe in terrorism. But I do believe in tyranny, especially […]

And now I begin to understand: it’s not just that the gender roles are different over here: certainly they are, but that’s not difference to be observed. It’s something more basic, more foundational. It’s not a different way to assigning men and women to roles and actions, but rather a fundamentally different way to dealing […]