Mr. Locke’s Classroom

In high school, I wrote about two or three songs each month, mostly melodramatic love songs and nineties-pop songs . In college, I slowed to about two or three songs a year. After college and for most of the last decade, I’m lucky if I write one song every three years. So [...]

What Does it Mean to “Own” Something?
And two tangential questions:

Who or what grants ownership? God? Government? Consensus? Strength?
Are there things that cannot be owned? Places? People? Thoughts? God?

And yes, I fully realize the historical irony of someone with my last name asking this sort of question. For more on [...]

In Open-Source culture, taking someone’s programming code and modifying it to suit one’s own needs and purposes is not considered theft, but rather a compliment of the highest order. To that end, I’m taking a page from the blog of friend and fellow Presbymergent Adam Walker Cleaveland.
Over the course of the next [...]