Some PKs turn out OK, but some don't. Skinny Puppy has not been paid. An 800-year-old argument that still smells bad. The Messiah clause in Jerusalem apartment leases. Moderate extremism. And why education alone can't liberate denialists. Read more
Some PKs turn out OK, but some don't. Skinny Puppy has not been paid. An 800-year-old argument that still smells bad. The Messiah clause in Jerusalem apartment leases. Moderate extremism. And why education alone can't liberate denialists. Read more
It's not necessarily the case that everyone who favors defunding health care for low-income women is a rage-filled misogynist, but it probably is the case that every rage-filled misogynist favors defunding health care for low-income women. Read more
Waffle fries, and hold the antibiotics. "Love Jesus and keep it simple." Fair-weather price-gouging is apparently OK. Sinkhole opens under wrong Kentucky museum. Plus World Pangolin Day and some other stuff. Read more
"Plaintiffs honor, and yearn for, the sacred values and dignity that other individuals celebrate when they enter into marital vows in Virginia, and they ask to no longer be deprived of the opportunity to share these fundamental rights." Read more
"As they were going along the road, they came to some water; and the eunuch said, ‘Look, here is water! What is to prevent me from being baptized?’ He commanded the chariot to stop, and both of them, Philip and the eunuch, went down into the water, and Philip baptized him." Read more
Prayer sessions seem to be these books' version of the training montage in 1980s movies. These prayer scenes don't have any of the key ingredients that every good training montage needs, but that doesn't mean the authors aren't trying to use these scenes in the same way. It just means that the authors aren't any good at what they're trying to do. Read more
The Daily Show interviews a remarkable Russian woman about what gives her the hope and courage to protest her country's ugly new anti-gay laws. "There is a quote from an American TV show called 'Angel.'" she says ... Read more
This is just to say that "snowflakes that fall on my nose and eyelashes" are officially no longer one of my favorite things. Nor are silver white winters that melt into springs. I like the melting part, and the spring part. But I've had quite enough of this silver white business, thanks. Read more
Women bloggers starting to make the men a little nervous; Texas football reporter quotes Audre Lorde; "epistemological synecdoche;" Darth Vader, Superman look on as man smashes police car; Bank of America gives back $245 it took from a customer; "In intellectual terms, Schaeffer and Lindsey were hacks at best, charlatans at worst." Read more
Even by the loony, loopy standards of the anti-rock-preacher circuit, Sketch Erickson stood out. He was obsessed with Elvis -- tracing all the evils in pop music, pop culture, and the entire world back to "Elvis. Aron. Presley." He always said the name like that -- first, middle, last, emphasizing each one. That serpent in the Garden of Eden with its sinuous hips? Elvis. Aron. Presley. Read more
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