If there is one thing I do, it’s write about fringe topics that no one is asking me to write about. I tend to think about and draw conclusions about things that no one else is pondering. This post is no different. Sorry if you were hoping for different! From …
NOTE: All photos taken by members of the Ramsey family. Click or tap on any photo to load the full sized version. Birds of Ecuador This is a male red-headed barbet. He just sat and watched, supervising while he had his mate try to break the window into our room by …
NOTE: All photos taken by members of the Ramsey family. Click or tap on any photo to load the full sized version. Galapagos Crabs Part 1 of 2 Juveniles Spot the crabs Adults A crab spitting water jets.
With God, equality and worth are metaphysical matters. Without God, equality and worth collapse into empirical and physical matters, governed by arbitrary philosophical abstractions. The result is blankslatism. Blankslatism is, ultimately, a rejection of God, yet often done so in the name of God. Consider this. In the Bible, the death penalty …
The blogs of Bnonn Tennant and Michael Foster (itsgoodtobeaman.com and bnonn.com) are no longer available. The former site has been deleted, with its DNS A record deleted. The latter is returning a 404. I’ve written about both men over the years and interacted with their material on a number of occasions. …
For the rest of 2026, I’m going to try to post some photos every Monday morning. This is long overdue. Even if you don’t like my other commentary, at least you can enjoy a bit of God’s wondrous creation. NOTE: All photos taken by members of the Ramsey family. Click or …
This is part of a series. See the index here. Hypergamy and polygamy are related terms that originally referred to marriage. Hypergamy, as traditionally defined, is marrying up into a higher caste and polygamy is having more than one wife at the same time. These days even monogamous marriage is on …
Have you ever heard of, or seen, the Hering Optical Illusion? How many of you believed that the two long lines are absolutely straight? How many other people do you think would insist, on the basis of an apparent appeal to authority alone, that this is the case? Well, it’s …
The following is what happens when you ignore the reality of genetic influences on populations: I’ve raised five children in the same nurturing environment. I’ve incessantly “talk-maxxed” them all. Nevertheless, the verbal ability of those five children on a variety of standardized tests is, as predicted, perfectly correlated with their …
I was not a fan of Bill Clinton, nor of his sexual indiscretion. But of all the things to criticize him for, this quote is not one of them. Bill Clinton is among the most intelligent presidents of all time, with common estimates of his IQ ranging from the high …