SPACE, THE FINAL FRONTIER…
THESE ARE THE VOYAGES OF THE STARSHIP ENTERPRISE
ITS CONTINUING MISSION, TO EXPLORE STRANGE NEW WORLDS
TO SEEK OUT NEW LIFE AND NEW CIVILIZATIONS
TO BOLDLY GO WHERE NO ONE HAS GONE BEFORE
When Star Trek-The Next Generation first premiered in the fall of 1987, the television landscape was very different. Only the three major [...]

Although the practice of sacrifice has been used in many ancient cultures, its intent was, in some way, to satisfy the demands that the gods were making for repayment of some beneficial effects bestowed on behalf of the people. Over time these sacrifices became physical and included the sacrifice of animals and humans, in [...]

In a previous essay, I wrote about KARMA as the law of cause and effect. In this essay, I want to explore KARMA as the energy of attraction. By attraction, I’m referring to how elements, whether they be identified as physical elements or thoughts and actions, causes and effects, can be pulled towards [...]

When I was in college, one of the courses that I found most interesting was Medical Anthropology. It covered medical practices from a cross-cultural standpoint. Although it was a reasonable approach, it was also one that was often at odds with the scientific approach that western medicine embodies, primarily because in many cultures, healing is [...]

There is no excuse or logic why so many people in the United States remain uninsured or have no accessibility to medical care. I fail to understand any excuses that try and explain it. In a country so rich, with almost unlimited resources as the United States. Politicians on both sides of [...]

OH CANNABIS, OH CANNABIS
HOW GOOD YOU MAKE ME FEEL
CAN IT BE A MISPERCEPTION,
OR A HIGH POINT OF CONTENTION
THAT SOCIETY THREATENS ME WITH DETENTION
IF I PERSIST IN MY WAYS
TO INHALE YOUR SWEET FUMES,
THAT CAUSE MY MOODS
AND SEALS MY DOOM
SITTING ALL ALONE
IN MY CELL BLOCK ROOM
Marijuana has been misunderstood for so long, it’s questionable whether it’s [...]

If I had committed some crime and I was condemned to death, such as Timmothy McVey in the Oklahoma City bombing, I would have denied all appeals made on my behalf and chosen death as he had. He is still contemporary enough to stir up the National anger that supports the death penalty. [...]

I - Defining ethical behavior is less a factor of whether a person is intrinsically good or bad as it is with how they deal with a moral dilemma that presents them with two or more conflicting resolutions. What is important is the code they use (process of reasoning) to arrive at the [...]