Jonathan MS Pearce

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Mar 13, 2020

Golf and Travel Bans

Coronavirus. Trump orders a travel ban from countries in Europe. The main countries he excluded were the UK and Ireland. Question: is there any coincidence that these happen to be the locations of

Mar 13, 2020

Replying to Comments

I have always prided myself on reading every single one of my comments and replying to at least the most pertinent ones. I always wondered why, when I blogged for John Loftus, he

Mar 12, 2020

The Media and Pandemics

I was having a discussion today about whether coronavirus has caused the media to take up scaremongering. My personal opinion is that the media are not scaremongering, they are just really excited. And

Mar 12, 2020

God and Coronavirus Revisited

“As a former presidential speechwriter, my careful rhetorical analysis is that he’s gonna get us all killed.” -David Litt, speech writer for Obama I am trying hard not to continually post about

Mar 11, 2020

God and Coronavirus

So it's about time I got back to talking about God, right? Let's mix up topical news with the age-old problem of evil and rationalising belief in God. I

Mar 9, 2020

On Campaign Finance Reform

This comment was from Cajun Exile, on this thread here in response to this video. I'll post it and then reply interlinearly. It received a torrent of upvotes from people, back