Does this guy have a solid point?

Is war a bad thing? What about rape and torture?

Do they point to weaknesses that must be strengthened?

Is Bullying a Bad Thing? Not if We Want a Society of Brutality

Maybe the protestors are less concerned about length of time in office, and more with criminal authoritarianism.

What Makes a President a King?

I have such respect for Pascal that I considered naming our son after him.  (My wife wasn’t having it. Maybe if we lived in France?)

Pascal made important contributions to both math and physics but he’s perhaps best known for his philosophic “wager,” that it makes sense to believe in God, since if He exists, you’ll be very glad you did, and if He doesn’t, you haven’t lost anything.  I counter that this is not how we accept or reject religious tenets.

Blaise Pascal, Renaissance Man–Literally