El Borak

El Borak is an historian by training, an IT Director by vocation, and a writer when the mood strikes him. He lives in rural Kansas with his wife of thirty years, where he works to fix the little things.

July 12, 2018

Bunch of Little Rotters

Over the years my tomato patch has produced respectable results.  But one of the problems I consistently encountered was called Blossom End Rot.  It happened first some ten years ago and grew
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February 19, 2018

What Did We Think Was Going To Happen?

Everyone, it seems, has a magic bullet that’s going to end school shootings. It’s part of our culture. The left wants one simple law passed and the right another repealed. Everyone on Twitter is a policy expert, Facebook is filled
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Snarl

April 16, 2018
In the outlands there lived a dragon named Snarl. Snarl never received a proper dragon’s upbringing, and as a result, he was kind and gentle. Oh, the nearby farmers did not think
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The Other Thing Missing

April 14, 2018
America’s favorite Archdruid explains how the Climate Progress Revolutionaries wound up against the wall: So the climate change movement entered the arena with one hand tied behind its back and the other
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Suffer the Children

April 12, 2018
Aaron mistakes familiarity for expertise: You are wrong. Jesus did in fact threaten those who didn’t believe. Jesus said that those who would not want to follow Him should be brought before
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God in the Luggage

April 11, 2018
Bible Study for Atheists is confusticated if not bebothered by a petty theft in Gen 31: I’m confused by verse #31. Jacob seems to be confessing to taking Laban’s “gods” (idols). That’s
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Science and Miracles

April 7, 2018
But he cured his own frostbite miraculously… Rare conditions could have conspired to create hard-to-see ice on the Sea of Galilee that a person could have walked on back when Jesus is
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Breaking God's Mirror

April 5, 2018
An academic prays for Science to make smarter monkeys: It is a bit of a stretch, but by no means impossible or even unlikely that a hybrid or a chimera combining a
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The Once And Future Kingdom

April 4, 2018
A kingdom, if you can keep it: WAIMANOLO, Hawaii (AP) – Native Hawaiians could be in line for federal recognition similar to many American Indian tribes. But the issue is inflaming distrust
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Losing Their Religion

April 2, 2018
Side-by-side articles on CNN illustrate why liberal appeals to religion always fail. The first introduces us to a modern martyr: When John Dominic Crossan was a teenager in Ireland, he dreamed of
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Alone

March 31, 2018
Faint light hailed a cold Sunday morning as Mary Magdalene led her co-conspirators through the city’s heavy gates. Their mission was a sorrowful one. They were to enter the tomb of a
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