Baseball’s playoffs–generally the best games of the year–got off to an amazing start as the Phillies’ Roy Halladay pitched the second no-hitter in the history of postseason play. (The first was in 1956.): In the last 54 years of baseball history prior to Wednesday night,
I saw a reproduction of this print a long time ago in a church basement, and I was happy to stumble upon it in the Wikipedia Commons. (It’s in the public domain, so you could make big posters of this.) It’s Lucas Cranach’s “Law &
Conservative Christians used to be all over the map politically, with probably more of them in the Democratic camp. What happened? Why are they now tending towards small government political conservatism? I think Michael Gerson, in the context of a column on another issue, hits
British biologist Robert G. Edwards won the 2010 Nobel Prize for Medicine for developing the technique of in vitro fertilization. Beginning in 1978, some 4 million children were born who were conceived outside the womb. Robert G. Edwards’s breakthrough development of in vitro fertilization, which
OK, I’m kind of embarrassed to be posting this, but the Washington Examiner did an interview with me. It mentions you all at this “lively blog” twice, so I guess I should show it to you. You can even see what I look like: Credo:
Apparently, the climate of eugenics, euthanasia, racism, and “life not worth living” was current in the United States in the 1940’s, just as it was in Hitler’s Germany. Look what government scientists did in Guatemala: U.S. government medical researchers intentionally infected hundreds of people in
The problem with atheists is that they can’t get along with each other and keep spinning off all of these different sects. [Paul] Kurtz, an 84-year-old who names his dogs for free thinkers throughout history, is the exiled founder of the Center for Inquiry, which
I haven’t read it, but I’ve got to. Novelist Ray Keating has started a spy, adventure, thriller series whose hero is a pastor in the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod. From a review by Russell E. Saltzman: Here is a fun adventure romp, a first novel
Arthur Penn died, the director of Bonnie & Clyde (1967). Who besides me remembers when that came out? It was a good movie, but it set some things in motion that resonate in Hollywood to this day. For one thing, since it flagrantly flouted the
Why do federal employees generally report less job satisfaction than those in the private sector, even though their pay, benefits, security, and working conditions are generally better? I suspect lots of reasons. Here is a theory: There may be yet another explanation for why federal
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