We're among the half million or so folks around here without power. The lights (and heat) went out about 4 a.m. Wednesday and PECO says everything should be up and running again by, um, maybe Friday? maybe? Read more
We're among the half million or so folks around here without power. The lights (and heat) went out about 4 a.m. Wednesday and PECO says everything should be up and running again by, um, maybe Friday? maybe? Read more
Boys who oppose the ordination of women also oppose health care for women. The least funny man in France. Richard Beck discusses William Stringfellow on "Strategems of the Demonic Powers." Jay Smooth discusses something similar. Tim & Jerry love the new Left Behind movie. And Paul Waldman discusses old white guys who haven't got a clue about how contraception works or who uses it. Read more
A much-publicized "debate" between science advocate Bill Nye ("The Science Guy") and young-Earth creationist Ken Ham is set for this evening. That's only half the debate that needs to happen. Yes, Ham's "scientific creationism" is a wretched counterfeit of real science, so it's good that he's being challenged on the facts of science by someone well-versed in those facts. But Ham's nonsense is even more a wretched counterfeit of Christian theology, and he also needs to be challenged on the facts of theology by someone well-versed in the Bible and in orthodox Christian teaching. Read more
It seems to be a double-standard -- a duplicitous standard. The very same people who insist that "in pain you shall bring forth children" is a sacred duty and a holy obligation for women never, ever suggest the same thing about the toil and sweat of men. Read more
Let the Post Office serve the unbanked. An 'unfortunate' comparison. For misogynevangelicals, women are under the Curse of Eve and men are under the Blessing of Adam. The 10-for-$10 bargain is not actually a bargain. "What I believe about what you believe." Read more
I'd like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony / I'd like to buy the world a Coke and keep it company .... Read more
Some people expressing ignorance may need help from a teacher, some may need help from a prophet, some from a pastor, a jester, an artist, an advocate, an attorney. Always punch up, always reach down. We can be, as St. Paul wrote, "all things to all people, so that we might by all means save some." Read more
1. Dammit. 2. Am I missing something with those H&R Block ads urging us to hire them to “get your $1 billion back America“? There are more than 300 million people in America. Discount children, the retired and anybody else who doesn’t file a return (the working poor may not owe taxes, but they still have to file) and there’s probably at least 100 million of us filing income tax returns. So that $1 billion H&R Block is harping about... Read more
Many people treat the Bible unlike other very long texts. They see it as as a kind of magical code. They treat that book as though its 700,000+ words were not language -- as though they were something to decipher rather than to read. Read more
"What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done; there is nothing new under the sun." Read more
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