Doc Ott’s Apologia Blog

One of the great things about being an American citizen is that I get to do (almost) whatever I want for fun. Assuming I do not hurt anyone in the process, I get a lot of leeway to enjoy the world around me. In some cases, that activity might be […]

Ok, so it is not hard to see that America is getting fatter as a nation. We hear about it on the evening news, read about it the paper, and yet we don’t seem to be changing anything about our lifestyle. We all know that eating too much is bad. Most of us know that […]

Most of us would admit that society seems to be on a generally downward slope. We have all sorts of social ills that the federal government likes to throw money at, yet it gets worse. Crime, poverty and drugs are just symptoms of what I believe is the real problem, […]

Ok, so this one is controversial, more so than some of my other posts, but try to stay with me here. For that to happen, you have to stop believing that the Earth is only 6000 some odd years old. Stop thinking that some almighty being (some people prefer to use the […]

Don’t you just hate people who sit around and bitch for the sake of bitching? They just sit around and seem to complain. They MIGHT have some idea how to solve the problem, make things better, but that would require effort on their part. Most of them don’t want to make that effort, because bitching […]

So there is this guy who is a good representation of one bad thing about the internet. His name is Gene Ray and is the author of the Time Cube Theory. Dr. Ray (he bestowed a doctorate on himself. I wonder if my doctorate from University of Minnesota is worthless…) rants about how the current […]

Let me first start by saying that I am not against any particular religion. I think religion has and still does provide a solid moral framework for our society. I have friends in many different religions. In almost all cases, their religious beliefs […]

Most of us have personal opinions. Some of them might be so entrenched and heart felt we might call them convictions. Abortion, the war of terrorism, affirmative action, education, conservatism, liberalism, whatever. What has shaped what side we fall on in these issues? It depends on how we were brought up and who told us […]