Captian's Log Aw, To Hell With It 9 Dec 2017 I was listening to the Andrew Klavan show the other day when this caught my ear: In his “Stuff I Like” segment, Klavan shared with the audience an interesting sounding…
Captian's Log Who Sits 29 Nov 2017 Check out Sable and her blog! I'll be referencing a poem written by Sable that you can read here. I was struck by a rather enjoyable poem wherein the devil…
Captian's Log My Dilemma 22 Nov 2017 ~Be Ye Warned: Spoilers!~ You remember the short story, The Lady or the Tiger? by Frank Stockton? I want to talk about the ending, or lack thereof. You see, there…
Captian's Log Don’t Shut Up 7 Nov 2017 You cannot argue with mindless hate, and hate seems all too popular in the recent storm of tweets seemingly attacking prayer. I thought this evening to work out a response…
Captian's Log Dead Man’s Hope 30 Oct 2017 There is hope today, I tell myself as I lay paralyzed in bed. Every morning’s the same now, like a weight in my chest, right over my heart, pining me…
Captian's Log Forgive U.S. 17 Oct 2017 "He said to him, 'If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.'" Their backs were to…
Captian's Log The World Gone Mad 16 Oct 2017 When you ride the train near daily, there is a certain inevitability regarding interaction with eccentric and extravagant personalities. These are mostly pot-heads, sometimes schizophrenics, but I was not prepared…
Captian's Log To: My Generation 7 Oct 20177 Oct 2017 Dear My Generation, It’s a meme now, a tired out joke, but it is the whole of materialism. In the light of comedy it is shown for hollow meaningless twaddle,…
Captian's Log The Mask of Religion 30 Sep 2017 I asked myself, this afternoon, what was more important, whether the outward actions of a body or the inner resolutions of a heart evinced the goodness of a person. Specifically,…
Captian's Log Re: Puddleglum 20 Sep 2017 If, at bottom, our only motives are the gratification of our desires, what does materialism offer us? Immediately, it places certain inner wants outside the realm of possibility. Loves, like…