I intended to write something else today, but since I wound up finishing "Luke Cage" instead, I wrote this. Consider this your comic-book-TV and/or what-I-did-when-I-was-supposed-to-be-doing-something-else open thread. Read more
I intended to write something else today, but since I wound up finishing "Luke Cage" instead, I wrote this. Consider this your comic-book-TV and/or what-I-did-when-I-was-supposed-to-be-doing-something-else open thread. Read more
Read the comments on any article reporting on such horrors and you'll find a weirdly contentious unanimity. Everyone is upset. Everyone is appalled. But everyone also seems strangely convinced that their being upset and appalled sets them apart -- and that these imagined others who are not upset and appalled also need to be admonished and corrected and punished. The comments quickly go from everyone saying "That's wrong!" to everyone saying "I can't believe that anyone would say that's not wrong!" Even though literally no one is saying that. Read more
Evangelical author Philip Yancey: "I am staggered that so many conservative or evangelical Christians would see a man who is a bully, who made his money by casinos, who has had several wives and several affairs, that they would somehow paint him as a hero, as someone that we could stand behind. ... To choose a person who stands against everything that Christianity believes as the hero, the representative, one that we get behind enthusiastically is not something I understand at all." Read more
"For the same reason you also pay taxes, for the authorities are God’s servants, busy with this very thing. Pay to all what is due to them." Read more
You see this again and again in Left Behind wherever the authors are forced to describe in particular the things they obsessively fear and oppose -- whether it's feminism, the United Nations or "the media." For all of their preoccupation with these things, they have no idea what they actually look like. "As long as you don't expect me to cook or something sexist and domestic like that." Feminists don't talk like that. Humans don't talk like that. Read more
This is what we talk about when we talk about George Soros: The idea of a vast, secretive Jewish conspiracy of secretive Jews conspiring secretly to control the whole world through their cunning international finance. If you think his name is self-evidently scary and that any alleged connection to him is somehow damning, it's because you believe in that anti-Semitic conspiracy theory. Read more
On one side of that divide we have those who think that truthfulness has to do with speech that corresponds with external realities. On the other side we have those who think that truthfulness is a matter of passionate sincerity and sincere passion -- of speech that corresponds with the speaker's sentiments. Read more
Beware of anyone who wants to eliminate all arbiters of law, legitimacy, and truth. Beware of anyone who dismisses law, or fact-checking, or academics, or science, or data. If they see those arbiters as a threat, then they likely see truth and reality as an obstacle. They're probably trying to lead you somewhere unreal. Read more
Tonight we'll see if Donald Trump is able to pretend to be something other than Donald Trump for 90 whole minutes. Let Trump be Trump. Also: A sad day for baseball; Mark and Homer; Rudy Giuliani is literally atrocious; and Eric Metaxas is a silly, silly man. Read more
"You shall not defraud your neighbor; you shall not steal; and you shall not keep for yourself the wages of a laborer until morning." Read more
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