Author: Tim Constant

Get some leaves! Introduction As a nurse, I get paid to know normal. A busted forearm is easy to spot because I am an expert in normal forearms. Come to the ER with your skin the color of Homer Simpson, and I know you got yourself a bum liver, because I know normal livers. You … Continue reading The Universal Solvent →

Westminster Shorter Catechism Q7 asks: Q. 7. What are the decrees of God?A. The decrees of God are, his eternal purpose, according to the counsel of his will, whereby, for his own glory, he hath foreordained whatsoever comes to pass - Westminster Shorter Catechism Basically this means that God does whatever comports with His own … Continue reading The Necessity Of Invention →

Introduction One of the assumptions taken for granted living in modern times is the fact we are living in modern times. We know it is 2022 and round about that many years ago time pivoted from counting down the BCs and began climbing into the ADs. But the people living around that time had no … Continue reading That Darkness Shall Not Overcome →

The following is an interview with Paul McKinney, PA, discussing his secular reasoning for why marriage is good for society. Thought Butter: Well, shall we begin? Paul McKinney: Let's do it. TB: Ok, thanks for being here with me and being willing to share your thoughts on marriage and society. As you made clear in … Continue reading Interview: Marriage And Society →

St Anne’s Catholic School was housed in an old church that erupted into the sky from the cracked asphalt of a Birmingham suburb. It had all invitation and gaiety of a crab. Like a crustacean, it was spiked and hard, and, like a crustacean, had reached a level of evolutionary laziness where it refused to change … Continue reading Modesty, Part 1: Beauty’s Condom →

When asked why she has never gotten a tattoo, my wife replies, "You ever seen a bumper sticker on a Ferrari?" She is joking, of course, but it is a hilarious one nonetheless. You can't walk a city block without seeing all sorts of skin graffiti covering arms, legs, backs and, increasingly, faces. This is … Continue reading Exogenous Identity →

When a man achieves the status of legend he becomes immortal. Robin Hood, William Wallace, and countless folk-heroes through the centuries became larger than life, their exploits pushing into the realm of the supernatural. Ideas cannot be killed as easily as flesh and blood. Once the story builds steam only the head of the man … Continue reading The Global Outlaw →

Introduction My wife and I have a good time joking around about what our preferred pronouns would be, if ever cornered. She is inclined to say her personal pronouns are "this/these" just because she thinks it would be funny to hear some human resource agent in all their sycophantic pomp to refer to another human … Continue reading Pronoun Pronounment →

Scanning the terraformed landscape of a post diluvian world, the most striking feature that may have caught Noah’s eye was the corpses of man and animal strewn about, bloated and pale, and beginning to smell. Far from the typical Sunday school artistry, the actual remnants of the flood had a lot more silt and boggy … Continue reading A Trickle Amongst The Toes →