One of my new favorite sites/blogs is Shorpy.com, the “100 Year Old Photo Blog.” It’s a wonderland of old photos, many in high resolution. I’m a major history buff, especially of “small” history — the everyday lives, ordinary people, lives being lived like lives have always been lived.
To get a taste, go look at this [...]
30 August 2008
Luna Park, Coney Island: 1903
30 August 2008
Imagination, Empathy, Compassion.
Where can we possibly, possibly get morals and ethics from, if not from God?
We’ll leave aside discussion about Morality by commandment. It’s too silly to bother with.
We’ll also leave aside Reason.
WHAT?! Yep. I mean, it’s important , don’t get me wrong, especially for ethics. But it’s not what this post is about. We’re digging a [...]
