“Four months ago we couldn’t even get a gig in our own home town.”
“People are commemorating Mike Wallace’s death at 93 by quoting his entertainingly rude questions. But unlike many askers of rude questions, Wallace often got pretty interesting answers.”
“Using Satan as an explanation for everything you personally do not like is not only theologically problematic, it is also terribly dangerous. It opens the door to the rampant demonization of other people …”
“Two Latino immigrants … were shot last night when a group of men wearing camouflage ambushed their pickup truck.”
“Their persecution drove the great theologian and linguist Roger Williams to flee the Massachusetts Bay Colony and establish Providence Plantations — now Rhode Island — where, as he envisioned it, ‘the most paganish, Jewish, Turkish [Muslim] or antichristian consciences and worships’ could live together in liberty.”
“An historic perspective should teach us humility if nothing else.” (via)
“If you don’t want to be thought of as a bigot, you should try to avoid talking like one.”
“It takes a lot of guts to post things on a plain HTML page these days.”
“Laws such as Alabama’s HB 56 and federal enforcement measures such as 287g have injected fear and anguish into even the most routine aspects of many women’s daily lives: going to work or taking kids to school, or seeing the doctor.”
“Drug safety, vaccines, antibiotics and reproductive medicine — all have become proxies for the culture war, often tripping up public health in the process.”
“Climate change provokes such visceral arguments because it allows ancient battles — about personal responsibility, state intervention, the regulation of industry, the distribution of resources and wealth, or the role of technologies in society — to be fought all over again.”
“A usually reliable source of workers, the local government-financed job center, could offer little help, because the federal money that local officials had designated to help train drivers was already exhausted.”
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