Rats. Just what I didn’t want to know….

Sam Harris: Ontological fancy footwork: All that business about God being “definitionally” the creator of the universe, outside of space and time, etc. just doesn’t wash. The “marzipan at the center of the sun” is definitionally at the center of the sun. Does this mean there is marzipan at the center of the sun? This… Continue reading

More good news: More intelligence, for example. Where once tactical units were “scraping” for intelligence information, they now have “information overload,” the general said. “After our guys are in the neighborhood for four or five days, the people realize they’re not going to just leave them like we did in the past. Then they begin… Continue reading

My article on Gene Wolfe is coming out in the April issue of First Things (subscription required). Jody Bottum gives it a nice plug here.

Podiobooks just keeps making the news. And, my traffic for Doctor Janeway is steadily increasing.(It can’t be long now before that studio calls with an offer…?)