Cav's Place

While I was playing Materia Magica today, somebody mentioned “Xmas”. That apparently bothered somebody else, who said it’s demeaning and offensive to take Christ out of Christmas. That could have degenerated quickly, but oddly enough it didn’t. I won’t get into how X can be taken as a text equivalent of a cross in that […]

I think teens having sex is a matter that receives too much of the wrong kind of attention, but the results of an interesting study that says teens who have sex early are less likely to get involved in illegal activities later have been made public recently. That flatly contradicts an earlier study that claimed […]

While the issues I will write about here are more specific than those mentioned in the previous post, dealing only with certain aspects of life, that doesn’t make them less important. I believe in freedom of religion, as long as you don’t attempt to force your beliefs upon others. That means everybody should be able […]

While the three topics I covered in the first part are clearly my top concerns, ranking becomes difficult further down the list. I have actually tried to rank the issues I’ll write about in this post according to how important I feel each is, but after changing them around several times I had to give […]

Some time ago I stumbled upon This I Believe and spent a few days racking my brains to figure out what I could submit but didn’t come up with anything. Needing to write about a single thing made the choice next to impossible and the ridiculously low word limit ensured there was no way I […]