Jan. 6, 2017 I know this won’t be popular, but IMO, sport hunting should be considered repugnant. All emotional justifications for hunting need to be weeded out of our culture, much the way we have (for the most part) uprooted our old romantic attachments to the practice of slavery.

Jan. 14, 2022 [ Image: pastedGraphic.png ] I go to the pharmacy tonight to pick up a prescription. The drive-thru is closed, so I mask-up and head inside. I take my place in a line running halfway up one long aisle, the longest traffic jam I’ve ever seen

Jan. 20, 2023 This was a one of my favorite places to write. The NYC Public Library on 42nd Street. The big, stimulating quiet of it: something between silence and a steady thrum. In other words, an irregular noise of humans being present, but each chair screech, pencil drop, cough,

Tom Beaver: Yep, I'm in favor of repealing the Second Amendment. Do we still have laws permitting the hanging of horse thieves? No, those laws serve no modern purpose, and now would only be harmful, and so have been retired. Likewise, the Second Amendment was put on the

Still trying to grok what commandment Christians think they are breaking by selling a wedding cake destined to be eaten by sinners at a wedding of sinners. Isn't that the fate of every wedding cake in history? Because in Christian theology, everyone’s a sinner, not just people

Tom Beaver: If your response to this is, "Yeah, but -- " just stop right there. Read the entire story first. Then if you still want to say, "Yeah, but — ," there's a very good chance that if you were those cops you would have done the

Tom Beaver: How to win an argument? Only do it with people who see argument as a collaboration, not a contest. People more interested in getting it right than being right. People who see facts and reason the same way when they're upset as when they're

June 5, 2019 Every plan for gun control has problems.  Just as the wish for a society without gun control has problems. But the size and number of problems are as different as night and day. In this area of mass public shootings, of teachers being asked to carry guns