Rabbi Jeffrey Salkin writes in Religion News criticizing the Israeli Ministry of Education for earmarking money for a youth biblical leadership program in the West Bank developed and lead by evangelical Christians.…
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"that's what space-time is…[space-time is] consciousness traversing associations in this world of information creating the illusion of space and time." —Jacques Vallee
Jacques Vallee is arguably the most important researcher on the question of UFOs (or as he prefers to call them UAP…
The unofficial motto for the city of Portland is "keep Portland weird"— a unique weirdness was hilariously captured in the show Portlandia. The argument of this piece is that Portland is a…
Imagine this scenario (this is based on a true story):
A presenter (a white woman) is asked to speak to a group of undergraduate university students. She prepares for the speech and then gives it. She has some initial remarks and then wants to have some discussion and conversation with the class…
"The moon was shinning on the lake at night,
My Slayer T-Shirt fit the scene just right…"
—Weezer, (If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To
Let's start with an…
In his book on the philosophical concept of the "event", Slavoj Zizek defines an event as "The surprising emergence of something new which undermines every stable scheme" (1). Later Zizek says, "At its most elementary, an event is not something that occurs within the world, but is a change of…
This piece is in many ways the inverse of my piece on Deadpool as the perfect postmodern movie. Star Wars did (most) everything wrong that Deadpool did right when dealing with our contemporary postmodern zeitgeist. Whereas…