Tom Pittman's WebLog Selections

(or something like that)

See Complete Index; Selections (Log Files listed below)

2010 May 6 -- Debating ObamaCare  Nobody is willing or able to defend an evil law in fair debate

2010 March 23 -- Peering through the Gloom  Either Obama and his cronies are lying through their teeth, or else they are idiots

2010 March 20 -- The Nature of Education  Education requires disaffirmation

2009 December 28 -- "I'm Responsible" A (retired) hospital administrator explains why ObamaCare only makes things worse

2009 September 9 -- ObamaCare Is Good (for Me) Personal benefits from a national disaster

2009 August 18 -- C.S.Lewis Again  A compelling argument for the historical reliability of the New Testament

2009 July 4 -- Independence from Dogma  Still no answer to The Question

2009 April 20 -- 1+2C The comprehensive moral obligation of every person

2008 December 31 -- The Psychology of Persuasion Why try to persuade?

2008 October 31 -- Relationshipism Christianity is about God, not relationships

2008 September 22 -- "Quotation"  Look for a meaning other than the dictionary sense of the words

2008 August 18 -- Next Crichton does not understand law, and it shows

2008 July 16 -- Artificial Life Bad science spoils Crichton's Prey

2008 May 8 -- The Corporation  A Marxist mocumentary falsely blaming corporations for all evils real and imagined

2007 December 12 -- The "God" the Atheists Hate  Atheists cannot logically impugn God's ethics

2007 November 21 -- Miller's Law Communication requires assuming the other person is telling the truth

2007 October 29 -- The Video Game Mentality  Playing the game doesn't make you an expert

2007 October 26 -- The Prisoner Exchange  Stop the fight by equalizing the guilt

2007 August 13 -- Living in Crete  A couple tricks for telling when you are being lied to, without knowing all the facts

2007 June 16 -- Selling the Sizzle  People buy on emotion

2007 April 3 -- Categories vs Diversity  We need categories to make sense of the world around us, but nobody wants to be thought of in terms of categories

2006 November 13 -- God vs. Science  The debate is more easily understood when you consider how robots might debate whether the humans that made them exist.

2006 October 18 -- Obama's Intolerance  Barack Obama understands that American are deeply religious, but he does not yet understand what religion is.

2006 September 13 -- Matthew 24 in Perspective  The Preterists and the Dispensationalists are both wrong -- and right -- about Matt.24.
2006 September 12 -- The Problem With Preterism  Besides ignoring significant parts of the Bible, this view of prophecy ignores ancient and modern history.

2006 July 14 -- Irreducible Complexity  People are attempting to confuse a simple idea that is utterly abhorrent to atheists

2006 July 3 -- Red-Handed Pseudo-Science  This "scientist" confirms his Darwinist hypothesis by discarding inconvenient data.

2006 April 17 -- Evil Mass Health  The new Massachusetts health insurance law portends the end of affordable health care in this country.

2006 April 3 -- "Free" Software  There is no such thing as free software, just different restrictions.

2006 March 31 -- Fantasy Magazine(s)  Two fiction-as-fact articles in the current WIRED magazine debunked.

2006 March 13 -- Stopping Spam  It can be done, but only if Congress empowers the people and gets out of the way.

2006 February 14 -- Better Software  Test code as the primary documentation for programmers.

2006 January 20 -- I am Pro-Choice  Every woman (including those not yet born) should have the right to choose.

2005 September 20 -- Good, Beautiful, True  A post-modern insight that is half-true.

2005 August 30 -- TANSTAAFL  Who pays for medical care?

2005 June 9 -- Boycott "Marriage"  The Supreme Court is poised to extend marriage to homosexuals. When that happens the churches should refuse to have anything to do with it. Here's how.

2005 May 21 -- Open Letter to Bill Gates  He had a good business idea -- for a few days. Now that his company is once again supporting a political agenda hostile to most of his customers, maybe they should start being hostile to his products.

2005 April 4 -- The Bible Tells Me So  The children's song says Jesus Loves Me, but does the Bible really say that? I don't think so. What's the truth?

2005 March 11 -- Macintosh "Founder"  The Macintosh that didn't happen, and why.

2005 February 14 -- Love, A Christian Perspective  Everybody, Christians and unbelievers alike, they all want to tell you that "God is Love" but the Bible teaches a different emphasis.

2004 December 25 -- Debt Free  Getting rid of bitterness.

2004 December 6 -- Publication Polemics  Why the Darwinists are afraid of the Creationists: the letter they cannot print.

2004 November 1 -- Geographic Sorting  Watch where you sit, it says something about your unspoken thoughts.

2004 October 19 -- It Takes One to Know One  An effective response to unfair criticism.

2004 October 15 -- Gender Bender  The truth about bias in the computer industry.

2004 September 20 -- Demonizing the Opposition  Recognizing who the Enemy is -- and isn't.

2004 August 14 -- Computer Power  What makes a computer (program) powerful, how much it can do, or how much it can do without your constant supervision and help?

2004 July 31 -- Salt in the Future  An honest look at my future job prospects.

2004 June 30 -- Plastic Music  Karaoke in the church

2004 June 21 -- The Race Card  You don't become successful by blaming others for your misfortune.

2004 June 15 -- King Scotus IX  You thought the USA was a democracy? Think again.

2004 June 4 -- Etiquette and Ethics  One of several observations (see also Love, above) on the difference.

2004 May 20 -- Reflection  Some lessons I learned in a very difficult situation.

2004 April 26 -- Revenge  The wrong way to deal with conflict, as practiced by many "Christians"

2004 April 19 -- Spartacus Virtue  Can Hollywood portray virtuous behavior and make it appealing? This movie did!

2004 March 8 -- Passionate Language  The Gibson movie, from a linguistic perspective.

2003 December 25 -- What's the Big Deal?  The "greatest miracle of all time" is not the incarnation.

2003 December 6 -- Feeling Unwanted  The church and its institutions do not welcome me and my personality type.

2003 November 17 -- Conspiracy Theories  Fun but not credible.

2003 November 7 -- The Value of Fiction  A review of the movie Matrix.

2003 November 3 -- Re: Judging  Comparing the Christian God to Allah

2003 October 10 -- Thwarting the Democratic Process  Voting is "the Democratic process" but one political party (nevermind their name) seems to prefer other means to achieve their ends.

2003 September 16 -- Unix vs Mac  Why I like the Mac so much, and why Apple's OSX is (nevermind their name) not Macintosh.
 

Log Files (Complete Index)

2003
2004 Part 1
2004 Part 2
2005 Part 1
2005 Part 2
2006 Part 1
2006 Part 2
2006 Part 3
2007 Part 1
2007 Part 2
2007 Part 3
2007 Part 4
2008 Part 1
2008 Part 2
2008 Part 3
2009 Part 1
2009 Part 2
2009 Part 3
2010 Part 1
2010  (current)