Author: Adam Lee

Here’s a little something for your Valentine’s Day from the Temper Trap, a band that I just recently came across though they’ve been around for a while. This is from their 2009 debut, Conditions, which is another of the rare albums I can easily listen to all the way through. It’s a minimalist video, but…

Atlas Shrugged, part I, chapter X Still in Oregon, listening to Lee Hunsacker rant about the failure of his factory, Dagny hears him mention a name she recognizes: “I worked like a dog, trying to get somebody to lend us the money. But that bastard Midas Mulligan put me through the wringer.” She sat up…

In 1994, Oregon became the first U.S. state to legalize physician-assisted suicide for the terminally ill. The Bush administration filed a lawsuit to overturn the referendum, but lost at the Supreme Court. Nevertheless, despite this victory, for many years Oregon stood alone in allowing doctors to ease their patients’ passing. But that’s now starting to…

You’d think that a news story this big would be impossible to miss, but somehow I overlooked it until just now. I hope you’ll forgive my tardiness, readers, because I have urgent information to impart: the Jorvik Viking Center has predicted that Ragnarok, the Norse apocalypse foretold in the ancient texts called the Eddas, is…

I haven’t done one of these in a while and I want to make this a regular feature on Daylight Atheism, so here goes. This is an open thread for the purposes of self-promotion. Do you have a blog, a Twitter account or a Tumblr you’d like to publicize, a Kickstarter project you’d like to…

Atlas Shrugged, part I, chapter X Although Hank is back at his mills, Dagny hasn’t given up searching for the inventor of the motor. Her latest clue takes her to Oregon, where she’s looking for Lee Hunsacker, the president of a shell company that owned the Twentieth Century Motor Company when the Community National Bank…

I usually pay little attention to the State of the Union address, since it rarely amounts to anything more than political theater. I had it on in the background last week, but I only listened to some of it, and even less to the official Republican rebuttal, which was delivered by Cathy McMorris Rodgers, a…

(Author’s Note: The following review was solicited and is written in accordance with this site’s policy for such reviews.) Summary: Hampered by its own extraordinarily modest ambitions. Doubting Jesus’ Resurrection: What Happened in the Black Box?, by Kris D. Komarnitsky, is a narrowly focused, skeptical explanation of what could have inspired Christian belief in the…

“Can a magician kill a man by magic?” Lord Wellington asked Strange. Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. “I suppose a magician might,” he admitted, “but a gentleman never would.” Since I’ve just heard the welcome news that it will soon be a TV miniseries, this SF/F Saturday presents a good opportunity to…

Atlas Shrugged, part I, chapter X Hank and Dagny’s search for the inventor of the motor has hit a dead end, so they go their separate ways and return to their day jobs. The political climate is growing increasingly socialist and hostile to businessmen, but Hank does his best to get back into a normal…