Dog Food and the Aorist Infinitive

Sometimes when I’m in one of those Big Box stores I find myself in the company of what in polite circles are called Old People. (This happens frequently in stores with lots of mirrors.) I pause in front of a pharaoh’s tomb of something, 5000 boxes of dog food supplement for example, and ask myself…

Bad Chymistrie

A friend of mine posted a meme on Facebook the other day that said this: Why do they call it ‘alternative medicine’ when it is the ‘original medicine’ that humans have been using for thousands of years? Chemical medications were discovered about a 100 years ago! That seems like a mild enough argument, though my friend…

Boom

I’ve been thinking about the hydrogen bomb. Did you know that a few years ago while flying across the country a nut popped loose somewhere in a B-52 and armed four warheads? They stayed armed until the boys reached the west coast and noticed a blinking light or something.  Freaky interesting, huh? And a while…