Some people have made such a contribution in one way or the other that their names pass into the language. The Washington Post has an interesting feature that takes up some of these names and argues that the actual person was different from the adjective
Here is a rather more optimistic assessment of the economy, based on the plans of America’s business executives. I cite it, though, for the figure of speech in the final paragraph: Washington policymakers are entering a crucial period for the nation’s stalling economy, starting with
This blog has, for a number of years, been engaged in a crusade to co-opt the secular Labor Day and to get it on the church calendar as a holiday that celebrates the Christian doctrine of vocation. I think it is working. I’ve been hearing
Your theme for Labor Day, I mean, Vocation Day: What gain has the worker from his toil? I have seen the business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with. He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he
Charles Krauthammer, taking a break from bemoaning the state of the world, devoted a column to baseball, specifically to the defensive plays made by a few members of the otherwise hapless but improving Washington Nationals. I love his descriptions: When you live in a town
Here is a feel-good sports story: Dominique Whaley’s photo is nowhere to be found in Oklahoma’s media guide. Before enrolling at OU, Whaley was an NAIA benchwarmer. Some replacement for DeMarco Murray. Some replacement indeed. Rising out of complete obscurity, Whaley rushed right into OU
Now that President Obama’s poll numbers are at record lows is a good time to make my prediction: He will win re-election. Easily. Maybe in a landslide. That the economy is a mess and that he has botched so many of his jobs will make
Economists expected SOME job growth in August, but the numbers came in worse than expected: ZERO job growth in non-farm occupations. WebMonk alerted me to this, urged me to post it while the information is hot off the wires, and was helpful enough to link to
People who oppose abortion like to call themselves “pro-life.” Proponents of abortion object to that term, which implies that they are “anti-life.” But one of the most forthright defenders of abortion–also post-birth infanticide, euthanasia both voluntary and involuntary–really is “anti-life,” arguing philosophically that human life may
When I was a youth, back in the olden days, I got to serve as a page in the Oklahoma state legislature. It filled me with awe, getting to be on the floor of where laws were made, carrying messages for congressmen when they signaled
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