Christopher Leapock

Beverley McLachlin cleared her throat. She’d been teaching junior high for thirty years, long enough that she’d started thinking of things in self-coined aphorisms. There are all sorts of troublemakers, went one of them, but the smart ones are the worst. That definitely applied here. “Stephen,” she said sharply, and tapped her foot until…

Last night I had the opportunity for a metaphysical interview with a group of protesters in eastern Ukraine. (As I explained in a previous post, a metaphysical interview is one where instead of talking to a person you speculate about what they might say.) While the kids were watching Johnny Test I nipped over…

In recent weeks Vladimir Putin has invented a new sort of Russian reversal. This is where you send troops to Crimea and take control of the government and media, then hold a vote on whether you should send in troops and take control of a region’s government and media. The notion of consent involved…

No posts recently; I was busy writing for a while. Then I got sick with bronchitis for nearly two weeks. Then I didn’t have anything interesting to say.I still don’t, but somehow this morning I ended up reading the Christian Post for a while….

How many philosophers does it take to screw in a lightbulb?Six to contemplate whether the lightbulb is real,four to try to simplify the problem by giving a definition of “lightbulb”, one to argue that whether the bulb is burnt out is a merely contingen…

How many Ph.D. students does it take to screw in a lightbulb?Five, and it’s only after you graduate that you realize there aren’t enough lightbulbs to go around.