Author Archives: Major Tom

This is not a part of the series, but a letter written as a response to an article about local government data center decisions. https://www.chronicle-tribune.com/opinion/data-centers-the-first-applicant-should-not-write-the-rulebook/article_cd6fe5b5-7f06-59b0-9376-667adc9d971e.html

https://www.chronicle-tribune.com/opinion/data-centers-the-hidden-infrastructure-working-quietly-in-the-background/article_4286b641-eceb-5473-8b8e-2e9156a252c6.html

https://www.chronicle-tribune.com/opinion/following-the-money-in-indianas-gas-tax-holiday/article_ddf4f58c-6677-512f-a17b-4ce8f6658466.html Not my normal column, but a topic I needed to dig into.

https://www.chronicle-tribune.com/opinion/data-centers-the-hidden-infrastructure-working-quietly-in-the-background/article_3f0a8899-2e78-5635-8922-30924874fd79.html

https://www.chronicle-tribune.com/opinion/data-centers-the-hidden-infrastructure-working-quietly-in-the-background/article_71af08c9-b0b1-574a-a551-1b62452ab4d9.html

https://www.chronicle-tribune.com/opinion/christian-nationalism-a-contradiction-part-3-when-politics-becomes-religion/article_56ddeb0c-d8fd-50e7-93a5-70d9ace289eb.html

https://www.chronicle-tribune.com/opinion/christian-nationalism-a-contradiction-part-2-jesus-and-empire/article_6481c799-a602-54b9-be98-bf2a8e3e31ea.html

https://www.chronicle-tribune.com/opinion/one-god-then-why-can-t-we-get-along-part-3-maybe-it-s-not/article_e564cef3-c0b4-5a18-af96-30c3e37e40d9.html

https://www.chronicle-tribune.com/opinion/the-laws-we-create-may-come-back-to-bite-us/article_74da84bf-d2b2-5119-9c99-46437836b1e2.html This was written prior to what may be a “backing away” of the Anti-Weaponization funding. We shall see.

https://www.chronicle-tribune.com/opinion/one-god-then-why-can-t-we-get-along-part-2-same-god-different-claims/article_cfa1dd13-01fc-5926-8266-71f3c6ff006a.html

https://www.chronicle-tribune.com/opinion/one-god-then-why-can-t-we-get-along-part-1-we-may-be-closer/article_d99c79c5-8d8f-5920-bfaf-4d164de7505b.html

Maybe too provocative, but something to think about.

https://www.chronicle-tribune.com/opinion/what-do-we-mean-when-we-say-the-bible-says-part-5-living-it/article_4d761f09-c4c5-5155-9a3a-007c0107bc24.html

https://www.chronicle-tribune.com/opinion/what-do-we-mean-when-we-say-the-bible-says-part-4-how-jesus-used/article_025dba4e-79cc-5e2a-ae51-d949a18f51ee.html

Buddhist humor

This one came to me since I’d been refreshing my Vietnam/Nixon reading and came across the Hard Hat Riots.https://www.chronicle-tribune.com/opinion/the-day-after-the-blackout/article_6ccdced5-2a84-55a4-97c0-83c2c89dcc44.html

https://www.chronicle-tribune.com/opinion/what-do-we-mean-when-we-say-the-bible-says-part-3-when-certainty-becomes/article_f68fae20-99c4-5257-b122-49be262a34c1.html

Recently, I’ve been re-reading and reading for the first time some Watergate and Watergate related books, and there appears to be a lot of symmetry that is cyclical. John Dean’s “The Nixon Defense” and “Blind Ambition” Daniel Ellsberg’s “Secrets” Henry … Continue reading →

https://www.chronicle-tribune.com/opinion/what-do-we-mean-when-we-say-the-bible-says-part-2-more-than-one/article_2872d613-2856-521e-8af2-2a4406ea7eae.html

https://www.chronicle-tribune.com/opinion/what-do-we-mean-when-we-say-the-bible-says-part-1-the-phrase-we/article_ca0928a8-c2fe-56da-9102-6c6211c75649.html

https://www.chronicle-tribune.com/opinion/staying-steady-the-discipline-of-staying-steady/article_deea49d5-fa99-5423-9926-0f5190cdb779.html

https://www.chronicle-tribune.com/opinion/staying-steady-has-the-middle-disappeared-or-just-gone-quiet/article_65a97964-f5d9-5a77-a0ca-63e8a21f774d.html

https://www.chronicle-tribune.com/opinion/staying-steady-what-happened-to-news-without-adjectives/article_55fd2e62-6568-5bf0-95fc-fad7d7afbc3f.html

https://www.chronicle-tribune.com/opinion/data-centers-part-2-the-questions-that-matter/article_e3d47bd9-f17d-5567-b981-05f3754f4b76.html

https://www.chronicle-tribune.com/opinion/data-centers-part-1-before-we-take-sides-on-data-centers/article_b750b054-1aa8-558b-b8cb-a540fdf93cbe.html

https://www.chronicle-tribune.com/opinion/good-deeds-carrots-christians-part-4-can-a-christian-be-an-existentialist-and-can-an/article_b28c770c-fac7-57bc-8363-acdb98f8ad5b.html