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Mar 7, 2024 | onlysky.media | Jonathan Pearce

Reading Time: 4 minutesThe best-laid schemes of mice and men gang aft agley, said the Scottish poet Robert Burns in 1785. Burns, as the plowman, destroys the nest of a mouse who then has no resources or wherewithal to rebuild it over the winter. Burns, as the plowman, rues his own plans that have often gone awry. The mouse is the lucky one as it has no concept of the past or the future and lives only in the present. The man, on the other hand, understands past predicaments and future dreads.

Mar 1, 2024 | onlysky.media | Jonathan Pearce

Overview: The recent IVF ruling shows scant regard for some rudimentary philosophizing we can do. The Justice needs some critical thinking lessons. Reading Time: 4 minutesThe Alabama Supreme Court has recently classified frozen embryos as people—or as they put it, “extrauterine children”.

Feb 25, 2024 | onlysky.media | Jonathan Pearce

Overview: Secularism seems a distant memory to the modern Republican Party, whose Speaker recently regaled members with a lengthy sermon. Reading Time: 2 minutesMike Johnson, Speaker for the House of Representatives where the Republicans are hanging tenuously onto a slim majority, recently remained true to his label as a Christian nationalist.

Feb 22, 2024 | onlysky.media | Jonathan Pearce

Overview: War is not uncommon in the Bible but it's still interesting to see how religious soldiers justify their actions on the frontlines. Reading Time: 10 minutesIt has commonly been argued that there are no atheists in foxholes facing an oncoming enemy assault. Equally interesting is who is behind the machine gun, driving the tank, flying the drone—or looking through the scope of a sniper rifle?

Feb 16, 2024 | onlysky.media | Jonathan Pearce

Overview: Kherson is a frontline city that has borne the brunt of Russian aggression, and is now suffering the consequences. Hope is in short supply. Reading Time: 16 minutesThe deep bass whoomph of outgoing artillery is enough to keep me on the edge of my guesthouse seat—a place that gets no business outside of NGOs and the like visiting Kherson. The crackle, fizz, and loud thump of incoming munitions, on the other hand, can make you jump.