As usual, the real scandal is not what is illegal, but what remains perfectly legal. Aaron Schock was forced to resign because he was corrupt, but 534 members of Congress remain in office and many of them are far, far more corrupt than he has ever managed to be. Consider, for example, Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma. Read more
Spring is coming, so if you need mulch, I know a guy. Here are a couple of items for the list of Things Millennials Will Need to Fix, plus: How the 1960s impoverished the Okies of the 1930s, the market sets a price for the State of Alabama, and an apocryphal study of angelic genitalia. Read more
Since I'm not yet sure that I can recommend the new USA Network show "Dig," let me instead recommend three alternatives -- a book, a TV series, and an album -- that are all kinda sorta related. Read more
You haven't really arrived until Christianity Today warns that you're a menace to the morals of youth. A reminder that prosecutors cannot magically turn a 12-year-old into a 20-year-old, no matter what they're accused of doing. Plus: The unbreakable Boze on the Unbreakable Kimmy; Jessica Valenti drinks a big mug of male tears; Franklin Graham is still awful and Cyndi Lauper still rocks. Read more
These Bailey-ite "alternative investments" with their modest interest rates might seem to me to be a wise way to help the working poor, but I also had heard hundreds of sermons reminding me that "the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight." I knew that "the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom," and that it was always dangerous to think that we knew better than what we read in the inerrant Word of God. Read more
The problem is not that the Bible is lacking in clarity. The problem, rather, tends to be a surfeit of clarity. If you turn to the Bible looking for an unambiguous, definitive and categorical statement on almost any given point, you'll be sure to find one. That would solve your problem ... until you realize that you can find more than one, and that they're not all the same. Read more
"When he has made her drink the water, then, if she has defiled herself and has been unfaithful to her husband, the water that brings the curse shall enter into her and cause bitter pain, and her womb shall discharge, her uterus drop, and the woman shall become an execration among her people. But if the woman has not defiled herself and is clean, then she shall be immune and be able to conceive children." Read more
John Hagee's weird little "prophetic overlay" about Joseph and Jesus thus highlights the way his "Bible prophecy" scheme turns the book of Revelation on its head. It portrays God as Pharaoh. It portrays Jesus as Joseph -- saving the world by enslaving it by force. Read more
"Here we see the "pro-family" ethic of Timothy LaHaye's brand of religious conservatism at work. Rayford is, first and foremost, a husband and a father. The dead and the dying who surround him at the airport are strangers, untermenschen. They are not his family and therefore, according to LaHaye's pro-family view, Steele is right to ignore them on his way back to Irene and the kids. (Even though, by now, Steele has a pretty good idea that Irene and the kids are long gone.)" Read more
Legend has it that on Friday the 13th, just before midnight, one of the greatest Americans who ever lived returns from the grave to chew bubblegum and kick ass. And Mr. Douglass is all out of bubblegum. Read more
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