Latest Comments

• What's your take on hell?

  Thu Mar 24, 2011
  • Finite man cannot commit an infinite crime...by definition.

• Android and iPhone: It's a two-horse race

  Tue Feb 15, 2011
  • Great article.  Well balanced.  Shows no particular favor -- sticks with the facts.  I love Apple stuff...without that dedication to innovation, advances in technology would likely be much slower.  Apple sets the standards that others must live up to to be successful.  At …

• First impressions: Samsung's Galaxy Tab

  Fri Sep 17, 2010
  • Apple has been a successful company with many passionate fans.  Whatever one thinks of Jobs or his business decisions or marketing strategy, he and Apple have been enormously successful by any reasonable definition of the word.

• Hawking says God's not needed. So?

  Wed Sep 1, 2010
  • If a God whose sole criteria for favor is belief, especially in a universe as broad, wide, and deep as this one is (not talking strictly about physical dimensions here, but in all metaphorical / symbolic applications as well) made sense, the believers would have a much more compelling case.

• Hawking says God's not needed. So?

  Wed Sep 1, 2010
  • So what's all the fuss about? For the supernaturalists, just write Hawkings' comment off as opinion, and be done with it. No harm done. No one has taken your God away from you. Hawkings' opinion has no bearing on your belief.

• Hawking says God's not needed. So?

  Wed Sep 1, 2010
  • Lol -- well, it's clear, as Bill in NE points out, that there's an unbridgable gap between the notion of needing God to meet certain psychological / emotional needs in many passionate believers and needing God (or not needing God) to explain the origin of the universe from the more dispassionate, …

• Hawking says God's not needed. So?

  Wed Sep 1, 2010
  • I suspect that the answer to many of the questions raised here -- about "before" the big bang (not so much an issue of "time", but rather an issue of conditions or circumstance); about what "exploded" and why; how nothing is itself a circumstance with ramifications; about whether or not intelligence …

• Few asteroids look ripe for astronaut visit by 2025

  Wed Sep 1, 2010
  • I have always loved the space program and everything it represents in terms of science and the outward reach of humanity. But the overhead associated with putting humans in space is monumental. So to move this forward, it seems we need to focus on three things:

• Ariz. man battles neighbors over tea party-linked flag

  Tue Aug 31, 2010
  • HOA's definitely have a valid purpose -- they enforces rules that, generally, set a certain minimum level of "conformity" that, theoretically, help ensure that property values don't suffer because a few folks don't keep their homes up with everyone else's.

• The 10 greatest (accidental) inventions of all time

  Thu Aug 26, 2010
  • One invention that hangs up there right next to the best of them: the hot shower.