Maverick Philosopher

My Gun Permit

It is called the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution. Issue date: 15 December 1791. Expiration date: Never. Motto: Fear the government that fears your guns. On this Thanksgiving we have much to be thankful for, includi...

Your Money Well Spent

Here: The National Science Foundation has spent more than $400,000 on a study that published scientific results on the “relationship between gender and glaciers.” The paper “Glaciers, gender, and science,” published in January 2016, ...

Automotive Frugality and Manual Air Conditioning

This is an old post rescued from the old blog, dated 20 May 2007. Some things have changed. But all the details were true then. ......................... There are some people with whom I would not want to enter a frugality contest. ...

Attitude, Gratitude, Beatitude

The attitude of gratitude conduces to beatitude. Can it be said in plain Anglo-Saxon? Grateful thoughts lead one to happiness. However you say it, it is true. The miserable make themselves miserable by their bad thinking; the happy h...

Michael Sudduth Converts to Vaishnava Vedanta!

The New Year has brought me quite a lot of surprising e-mail, but the following missive wins the surprise prize. (Since Dr. Sudduth has sent his open letter to numerous correspondents, and has posted it on his Facebook page, I feel enti...