The savagery of Russian soldiers and their war crimes are incomprehensible to folks in the West living their lives in safety and comfort. I WROTE THIS ARTICLE TO ELICIT ASSISTANCE FOR A YOUNG UKRAINIAN IMMIGRANT. PLEASE READ HER STORY AND PLEASE CONSIDER HELPING. STEEL YOURSELVES TO WHAT FOLLOWS. (It is…

Lest there be an attempt to foist upon readers the canard that this article is an argument in support of one or the other side of the abortion issue, it is not. It is about the vile and thuggish behavior I witnessed of a group of woke Kennesaw State University…

Deadly Obsessions, Self-Absorption, Historic Falsehoods, and Coldly Calculated Messianism The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one’s designs to one’s means.” (Napoleon Bonaparte) Many are questioning the sanity of Vladimir Putin. Color me skeptical. Notwithstanding Putin’s difficulties in prosecuting his war in the face of exceptional Ukrainian bravery…

Putin sank three-pointers, our fears got the best of us, and we continue to blow it. Preface In two previous articles [01] [02], at a time when essentially all pundits were worried about Putin’s mental health (and, by extension, of what he was capable), I was skeptical and disagreed. Last…

Fuck this war… Translating this poem was very difficult for me — the father of three Ukrainian princesses. Author: Violetta Kravchenko (Віолетта Кравченко) Dedicated to all the heroes of Ukraine who will not be able to see the birth of their children… (Присвячено всім героям України, які не дочекалися народження…

Introduction An icon (Greek εικόνα [ei-KŌ-nă]; Ukrainian ікона [ee-KŌ-nă]: image, likeness, representation) is a portable sacred image, usually written on a piece of wood according to the style and techniques of Byzantine Christian art. It is written — not painted — because the icon is understood to be a prayer…

With her permission, this is Irynka’s story A friend of mine in Ukraine asked the following story be translated into various languages and distributed as widely as possible. * * * * * When everyone started talking about a possible attack, we simply could not imagine it would be so…

Michael Shermer worldview is skepticism, and he is an absolutist about it. Indeed, he is a fundamentalist about; he’s a kind of Soup Nazi [01] about it. For Shermer, skepticism is an end in and of itself — the lens through which he interprets all of reality and that which…