Archive for March, 2009

It’s spring!

A great pleasure of the season is seeing the garden come back to life. What sweet delight to see buds on the branches, and long-forgotten plants peeking forth!

And, oh! the days! They are noticeably longer, and being out just makes me happy to be alive.

I love spring.


Why People Believe Weird Things

Humanist. Agnostic. Atheist. I always stumble a bit when asked about how I view the world, generally preferring to appear matter-of-fact than antagonistic. Perhaps the best moniker to capture my desired view of the world is “skeptic.”

What makes a skeptic? An outlook on the world based on the scientific method: the accumulation of empirical evidence and the continuous testing, retesting, rejection, [...]