cosmic's blog

The Latin language is NOT dead!  Read More »

I live in the heavily populated suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Like all of suburbia, my community is the boundary line between rural and urban America, so I see elements of both. For the past few years, an issue that's been getting a lot of attention in my county is the overabundance of deer.  Read More »

Politics. Politics, politics, politics. It's a source of hope, conflict, compromise, progress, and cynicism. When I turned 18 a few months ago, I immediately registered to vote, but was faced with a political predicament: with which party to register. In the US, you don't get much of a choice, as we're all aware.  Read More »

By what standard can progress be measured?  Read More »

The Big Bang marked the beginning of the existence. Somewhere, sometime, someone must have flicked the light switch on. The origin of the universe, the beginning of physics and astronomy and chemistry, lie with some creator. The physicist Stephen Hawking himself remarked that it's difficult to explain the beginnings of the Big Bang without a God.  Read More »

Well, I've been posting a lot of comments on other people's blogs, so I figured that I might as well start my own blog so I can have all my ideas in one place, rather than responding to a dozen other blogs all over the place. In fact, I think I'm going to start a blog series about my own personal view of the world, and pretty much everything in it.  Read More »

So I was watching Pope Benedict XVI's arrival in the States yesterday. I'm no Catholic, but I was really impressed by not only his following and massive crowds of fans, but the messages he preaches.  It's refreshing to hear someone talk about the obvious moral shortcomings of this country, and that the fault lies not with our government, but ourselves.   Read More »