Quick -- whats 2 * 0 * 1 * 4? Did you get zero? I got zero. Also: theistic atheists; Pat Robertson's spiritual warfare against Parker Brothers; a Bircher in the Senate; 23 fiscally irresponsible governors; and stuff white teachers say in North Carolina. Read more
A spoonful of Sugar helps the Monday links go down, featuring: Heritage USA as haunted village; the Queen's annual Swan Upping; the myth of Aristotle; the user agreement to all technology; covert baristas; and the recipe for Guacamole Karloff. Read more
Rick Paulas says Americans should adopt the bidet. That seems unlikely -- for many reasons discussed here. But this post isn't actually about bathrooms and bidets. Read more
Some Sunday afternoon linkage, including: Paul Waldman on the gigantic federal failure that wasn't; praise for an endorsement rejected and praise for an endorsement withheld; the man who taught Inigo Montoya to fight; and who's stealing from whom? Read more
"Wisdom excels folly as light excels darkness. The wise have eyes in their head, but fools walk in darkness. Yet I perceived that the same fate befalls all of them." Read more
Mary Hunt on the Synod on the Family; Elesha Coffman on Randall Balmer; Monte Harrell Hampton on the "Southbound" evangelical Bible; and Mark Binelli on "The Great Kansas Tea Party Disaster." Read more
In theory, Comcast could have an incredibly detailed demographic dossier on our household. But when it comes to mining that data for any apparent purpose, they don't even seem to have a grasp on the basic geography they could learn from our billing address. We get ads for political candidates in other states and for restaurant chains that don't have any franchises in our region. We get ads for diapers and baby care products and motorcycle insurance. Read more
All the rest of what we think of as ethics shouldn't stop at the bedroom door, replaced there by the separate sub-category of "sexual ethics." Rather than risk segregating "sexual ethics" from the rest of our ethics, we might be better served by some variation of that silly game we play with fortune cookies. We should reaffirm what we already know or believe about ethics ... "in bed." Read more
Happy Halloween. Here are some Friday tricks and treats, including: professional liar David Barton isn't a fan of Left Behind either; Michelle Krabill on rape culture in the Bible Belt; Pat Robertson criticizes lazy brain cancer patient for not coming to him sooner. Plus: Does Francis believe in evolution? Is the pope Catholic? Read more
"Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins sincerely believe that we are now living in the End Times. They wrote Left Behind in the hopes of convincing others that this is so. Yet on page after page the reader is confronted with jarring illustrations of how glaringly, insurmountably incompatible this End Times world is with the actual world we are living in. The more you read, the more this book undermines the argument that our world and the world of the End Times are the same thing." Read more
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