If I abdicate my direct responsibilities, I will end up placing a heavier burden on those with indirect responsibilities -- forcing them to play a more direct role. If I neglect my indirect responsibilities, I will end up placing a heavier burden on those who bear a more direct responsibility -- possibly causing them to fall under the weight of it. Read more
Undefined, undifferentiated pronouns are always the hallmark of someone who doesn't understand subsidiarity. Define and differentiate those antecedents and you begin to appreciate the inescapable necessity of subsidiarity, the bonds of mutuality and the direct and indirect functions that all have in relationship to all. Ben Carson shows us the alternative to that -- which involves teaching babies to change their own diapers. Read more
RIP Harper Lee, and thanks for the book. Plus: Mallory and Moltmann, Mullica and Munchkins, Blood Moon lunacy, good news from Connecticut, real estate in Atlantis, and more creative ways to screw over poor people. Read more
"If your week began on an overnight flight to London and that flight was interrupted and rerouted to Chicago due to the still-unexplained disappearance of some 2 billion people, followed by scores of plane crashes around the world, rail disasters and untold death and mayhem, then you might take a moment to reflect on that a few days later as you once again boarded an overnight flight to London. Buck doesn't." Read more
Men get more prestige for having less knowledge. That can lead to them thinking they deserve it, and that can have consequences. Plus: A white sheriff is confused by "Formation;" a prequel I'd love to watch; the confirmation of Justice John Marshall; and a rabbinical koan. Read more
In simple terms: Carson's campaign consultants are Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom. Ben Carson himself is Franz Liebkind. And the Carson for President campaign is "Springtime for Hitler." The producers of this money-making flop are already looking for their next lucrative failure to repeat the scam in 2020. Franklin Graham seems, like Carson, to be an ideal front for this sort of thing. Read more
I'm not here to criticize this very common type of article. I just want to point out that: A) such articles exist; and B) if you fit the profile for such interviews, you should absolutely exploit that opportunity for all its worth. This gives you a captive audience. Use it. Read more
Back in 2013, progressives were unanimous and united in fighting for the extension of the Violence Against Women Act, just as they had been unanimous and united behind the law when it was first passed in 1994. Those who don't remember that fight in 1994 now seem to be remembering it differently. Read more
Donald Trump said something that was actually true. Plus: The blessed freaks; the Curse of Christopher Cross; Jeb! half-cocked on Twitter; and the CIA's script for "Office Space 2." Read more
If you read the 10,000 study notes in Ryrie's popular Bible back in 1978, and if you believed what they taught, it would have seemed utterly impossible to imagine that you would one day read an obituary, in 2016, reporting that Ryrie had died at the age of 90. There was simply no way, if all those notes were true, that the world would still be around in 2016 -- no way that Ryrie himself would live another 38 years without getting raptured first. Read more
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