Wherein I imagine a new use for the door-to-door evangelism training from my childhood. Read more

They know. They can smell it too. And the stink is just as bad to them as it is to normal people and to decent people. Read more

"You and the alien who resides with you shall have the same law and the same ordinance." Read more

Retailers usually start getting Christmas [stuff] in July and August. That may not happen this year. Read more

"Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid." Read more

It used to be a lot of work coming up with the premise for a Hitchcock-style thriller, but now the most unbelievable set-up just seems realistic. Read more

Seriously, just look around. Does it look like the meek are inheriting the earth? Does it look like those who hunger and thirst for justice are being filled? Does it look like the merciful are being shown mercy? Read more

"End times fascism" is both familiar and frightening. Oh, and also, "Slings and Arrows" is now free on YouTube. Read more

There's a huge fortune to be made manufacturing tents and barbed wire and shackles and chains for the authoritarian regime. ProPublica looks at one profiteering tent-maker. Read more

"On no day will its gates ever be shut. The glory and honor of all nations will be brought into it." Read more