bless us with anger. bless us with discomfort.

Read both prayers offered this inaugural week, the ecumenical one from Bishop Eugene Robinson and the narrow Christian one from Pastor Rick Warren, and you’ll see that Robinson speaks for the Obama we thought we elected, while Warren speaks for the one we have now discovered we elected.

Obama tried to pacify [...]

myth watch: evaluating pluto, ceres, and persephone

You probably know already that Pluto was downgraded from planet to dwarf planet by the International Astronomical Union in 2006. The Kuiper Belt has a number of large-body objects, and Pluto is only one of them. (Larger than Pluto is Xena. She was not upgraded to a planet. Her moon is Gabrielle, no kidding.)
But maybe [...]

saturn dreaming of uranus

As I’m nearing completion of a book, I find I’m having to do the hardest part. The synopsis. If you’re a writer you know how daunting this is. I mean, it took me five years and 120,000 words to write this thing and now I have to rewrite it in 500 words in a few [...]