Lynne McFarland offers some good advice: "Keep your fear small and your love big." Read more

Which takes priority: Assisting some process completely outside of your police jurisdiction? Or following a lead involving the actual Most Wanted Fugitives list? Read more

"If it is adjudged illegal to procure even such an investigation, then we are thrown back upon those last defenses of our rights, which cannot be taken from us, and which God gave us that we need not be slaves." Read more

Wherein we meet Loretta. This is, I think, where I started regarding the authors as unreliable narrators and cheering on the meta-textual characters rebelling against their characterization. Read more

Is the pope Catholic? It turns out that yes, yes he is. (Go Wildcats!) Read more

Black smoke emerged from the chimney at Slacktivist World Headquarters today, indicating that we do not yet have a new post. Read more

Treat her right. Read more

Steves is the host of a travel show on public broadcasting. But the GOP's attacks on international travel and public broadcasting aren't why Rick Steves is angry. Read more

In the twisted world of LB, the evangelistic impulse has nothing to do with love for others. It becomes, instead, a way to justify, and revel in, their damnation and destruction. Read more

It is, like every form of Satanic baby-killerism, a desperate, foolish lie that desperate, foolish people tell themselves in the hopes of tricking themselves into believing that they are entitled to always identify as intrinsically Good People. Read more