When played at the highest level, tennis often becomes a grueling war of attrition. Players might run up to three or four miles in a series of abrupt wind sprints during a five-set match. Play can last for hours. Novak Djokovic has allegedly run for more than seven miles to win a tennis match before. It is player against player, with one winner and one loser when the final point has been won. If you are a player, you'll do whatever it takes to win the match. It is a sport for gladiators at heart, and one player rises above the others as the greatest player of all time. COPYRIGHT 2023 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Novak Djokovic is a superhuman human being. He's currently tied with Rafael Nadal for the most number of Grand Slams in tennis history, but while Nadal's best days are behind him, Djokovic is still going strong. He just won the Australian Open for a record tenth time, losing only one set for the entire tournament, in spite of the fact his left leg was heavily wrapped in bandages for most of his matches. Djokovic had injured his leg playing in Adelaide Invitational as a warmup for the Grand Slam event coming a few weeks later, but still managed to win the tournament. One of his critics, Australian player Alex De Minaur, managed to win only five games in three sets in his fourth round match against Djokovic. After the match De Minaur said, "Everyone has been seeing what's been happening over the last couple of weeks. It's the only thing everyone's been talking about. I was out there against him. Either I'm not a good enough player to expose … [Read more...]

Some people might believe I didn't know what I was getting into when I accepted Aron Ra's offer to appear on one of his podcasts to be insulted, mocked, and ridiculed. On the contrary, I pretty much knew exactly what would happen, although I must concede that Aron failed to even meet my lowest expectations. Aron didn't care about anything I had to say. He'd already decided that everything I might say would be wrong or a lie or both before I ever opened my mouth. An unedited copy of the entire podcast recorded from my laptop can be viewed here. I was given less than 30 minutes notice before the show started, so I had no opportunity to invite people who might be friendly to my point-of-view. My appearance was exploited purely for his financial benefit. Not that I care all that much, but you'd think he'd be a little nicer to a potential cash cow. I haven't been given a link to the podcast or a copy for my own use. Perhaps I'm being premature in judgment, but he's given me no reason to believe I'll be getting a copy at any point in time in the future. I have yet to feel like I've been treated with even the slightest respect by Mr. Nelson, a.k.a Aron Ra, and the experience is now over. Don't expect I'll be getting any respect anytime soon, either, even though I bent over backward to be nice at the start of the show by complimenting Mr. Ra on his undergraduate degree in Anthropology, I believe it was. OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA Basically, I've been treated as nothing more than an opportunity for Aron Ra to fleece his willing audience of a few hundred dollars, or … [Read more...]

For the umpteenth time, I'm going to explain why I do NOT believe humans evolved from apes. My atheist friends would like to attribute this rejection of a basic tenet of evolution theory to my personal religious beliefs, taking away the credit from where it belongs: a mental exercise in which I attempted to take the theory as an idea and applied it to reality. Now, to first prove that I do understand the basic concepts of the theory fairly well, I shall describe the beliefs of evolutionists in a brief narrative: once upon a time, there were (now extinct) Old World apes. A small breeding population of these apes became separated from the main pack and evolved from Australopithecus to Homo Habilis and all the other homos until eventually becoming Homo sapiens. And why did humans evolve from apes? Well, because they could. See the progression chart below. The illustration is one of the primary reasons I've often derisively described macroevolution as "shape-shifting" because it is a truly remarkable belief to hold that the ancestor of the guy sitting behind the computer desk on the far right was the ape on the far left, once upon a time. One might also say it was ludicrous to believe it. However, a lot of people do believe just that, so the remainder of this article will explain my objections to the theory of ape-to-human evolution in fuller detail. The key word in the sentence about shape-shifting is ancestor. How does one creature become a descendant of another creature? Bluntly stated, the ancestral creature has sexual intercourse with another creature and … [Read more...]

I've never really liked soccer. Never played the game, never understood the rules, and still don't, even though I "coached" my son's youth soccer team when he was younger. I just listened to what other coaches were yelling at their kids to do and told my kids to do the same thing, but it wasn't "real" soccer. There were only three or four players per team, and everyone played offense except the goalie. Nothing at all like a World Cup match. Quite frankly, I've always felt that my son's games were far more exciting than your average World Cup match. After all, each side typically scored four or five goals per game, easily, while in World Cup an entire game can end in a scoreless tie. With far fewer players on my son's team, the idea was that the best defense was a great offense. Nobody ever passed a ball backward to a defender so they could waste time moving the ball around without any apparent purpose behind it. I was a pretty horrible soccer coach, but the kids seemed to have a lot of fun. At one point, I bought my son a Spiderman goalie's jersey, but then all of a sudden my goal scorers wanted to play goalie, too. Fun memories. However, those memories never inspired me to learn the game. If given the choice between watching a professional soccer game and watching paint peel, I'd be hard pressed to say which would be less entertaining. About the only thing that could put me to sleep as fast as a soccer match on television is a golf tournament on television, but the difference is, I sort of enjoy golf. So, in keeping with my personal tradition, I watched none of the … [Read more...]