I’m back.  It was a fraught 24 hours.   First resource was my 3rivers techies, several shifts of them.  Then it was the MAC techies in California.  And then the “legacy” MAC techies and finally the eMAC techies.  One woman exclaimed (heartfelt),  “Oh, I just LOVE eMacs!”  I write their names down as I go.  (They have a ticket number identifying my prob...

On Easter Sunday, April 15th in 1990, I was visiting a church near my home in Penn Hills, PA.  A lady in Sunday School asked the pastor “How can I teach my teen-aged children about Adam & Eve in the Garden of Eden when they are being taught evolution in school?”.  All the pastor would say is “just believe the Bible”.  I considered that a copout, and realized...

A recent article in the “Opinionator” by philosophy professor Jeff McMahan attracted a good deal of attention on my listservs, which include environmentalists, hunters, and animal studies people — a broad assortment easily set at each other throats. Some took this article as absolutely received word and others said it was obviously provocation and still others...