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I inten­tion­ally stay away from reli­gious dis­cus­sion because I know my lim­i­ta­tions. I know that I’m pretty pig-headed when it comes to my beliefs. I know I can be con­de­scend­ing when some­one tries to argue a point that I feel is wrong. And I know I get prej­u­di­cially con­de­scend­ing when deal­ing with cer­tain types of peo­ple. Aspies can be like that, and I think I feel it’s a lit­tle to my credit that over time I’ve learned to back off from poten­tial argu­ments and con­flicts in con­ver­sa­tions I’m pas­sion­ate about, and know­ing what oth­ers to avoid completely.

Reli­gion is one of those top­ics. But it’s one that I’m going to talk about because it has decided to greatly affect my fam­ily, and since few (if any) peo­ple read this blog, it’s prob­a­bly a place I can vent with­out get­ting into a confrontation.

Short answer: because most of my “friends” from Face­book aren’t on it. Longer answer: Twit­ter still has a fresh­ness to it that Face­book a while back when it because a Zynga gam­ing soci­ety. Not every­one who owns a com­puter is on it, but there are a good chunk of peo­ple who are. I can use it […]

George Stein­bren­ner passed away today from a mas­sive heart attack. He was 80 years old. Stein­bren­ner was the prin­ci­pal owner of the New York Yan­kees and the def­i­n­i­tion of “hands-on owner” from the time the own­er­ship group he led pur­chased the team in 1973 until 2007 when he tran­si­tioned the day-to-day oper­a­tions of the Yankees […]

I was lis­ten­ing to NPR on the way in to work today and they had a seg­ment about Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mock­ing­bird, which is near­ing its 50th anniver­sary as a pub­lished work. Mock­ing­bird is one of my favorite pieces of fic­tion; one I actu­ally read (instead of skim­ming) in high school and is […]

Been hav­ing some sleep issues lately, as you’d be able to tell by the time­stamp of this post. It’s not really stress-related, at least not obvi­ously, but it may just be my frus­tra­tion with a few things, my reac­tions to those frus­tra­tions, and the guilt I have with those reac­tions. When I started to write […]