2009-08-21T05:00:45-04:00

If you see a suspicious looking old man wandering around your neighborhood in a hooded coat, late at night and in the rain, it might be Bob Dylan. He’s been doing that sort of thing lately, and people have been calling the cops on him.

2009-08-20T09:03:02-04:00

Yesterday’s post about Whole Foods C.E.O. John Mackey’s ideas for free-enterprise-based health care reform spurred a lot of discussion here. But much of it was about the appropriateness of boycotts and other issues. I would like to hear what you think of one aspect of

2009-08-20T05:30:00-04:00

Were there no gospel-believing Christians under medieval Catholicism? Do conservative Lutherans think they alone are right with God? Well, consider what Missouri Synod founder C. F. W. Walther said about St. Bernard of Clairvaux (as quoted by Paul McCain at Cyberbrethren: “St. Bernard, the famous

2009-08-20T05:18:51-04:00

An Oklahoma court has thrown out a state law requiring women to see the ultrasound picture of their babies before getting an abortion. Pro-choicers and pro-lifers agree that ultrasounds result in fewer abortions, so the former decry the practice while the latter are all for

2009-08-20T05:00:57-04:00

Both advocates and critics of a government-run “single payer” system look to the example of Great Britain’s nationalized health care. Here British journalist Mike McNally offers a revealingly balanced view: The British system is not nearly as bad as has been suggested by opponents of

2009-08-19T06:00:24-04:00

Here are some ideas for health care reform from John Mackey, the CEO of Whole Foods markets: • Remove the legal obstacles that slow the creation of high-deductible health insurance plans and health savings accounts (HSAs). The combination of high-deductible health insurance and HSAs is one

2009-08-19T05:34:50-04:00

Former Packer quarterback Brett Favre for the second time has come out of retirement, this three weeks after saying he wouldn’t, and has signed with the Packer arch-rivals, the Minnesota Vikings! He is dead to me now.

2009-08-19T05:00:57-04:00

The deadline was Monday at midnight. At 11:58 and 43 seconds, Stephen Strasburg–who is supposedly the best pitching prospect in a generation–agreed to sign with the Washington Nationals. The last place team signed the number one draft pick for $15.1 million for four years, plus

2009-08-18T06:00:48-04:00

The Washington Post on Sunday had a front page, color-photograph, two-full-pages-in-section-A feature about the financial hardships of a woman struggling to live through the recession on only $300,000 a year. I’m sure people read the story with both indignation and schadenfreude. I am not without

2009-08-18T05:27:47-04:00

That’s what they called Les Paul in Wisconsin, the man who invented the solid body electric guitar and multi-track recording. He died august 13 at 94. The man who made rock ‘n’ roll and much of today’s popular music possible could also play. Here he

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