Rod Taylor
A Particular God
CBC carried the news recently that “scientists may have found the ‘God particle’.” Teams working with the Large Hadron Collider have nearly convinced themselves (if not all of their fellow-creatures who know nothing about colliders and sub-atomic particles), that the Higgs boson particle, hitherto a theoretical particle waiting to be “proven” by series of tests, does actually exist. So this is an article about that article describing a particular type of scientist looking for a particular…
Rod Taylor
Calling Evil Good and Good Evil
This week we’ve seen another reflection of Isaiah’s lament: “Woe to them that call evil good and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” In Ottawa, we’ve seen—on Wednesday—the passage at 3rd reading of C-279, the Transgendered Bill which gives special attention to the feelings and wishes of those with gender identity and gender orientation distinctives. As most know who followed…
Rod Taylor
Gutted by the Gutless
There’s a joke about an old East Coast fisherman who decided to try something new he heard about on TV: sausages. In due time, he purchased a package of these sausages and his wife cooked them up for supper. A couple of weeks later, one of his fishermen friends asked him, “How did you like those sausages?” After a momentary pause, our crusty old codger ventured this: “Well, after ya cut the heads and tails off and gut them out, there ain’t much to ‘em”.
On Wednesday, June 5, 2013 we found…