So here's my suggestion: Let's have our political conventions in cities that really need this infusion of cash and, even more, attention. Four years from now, I propose that the parties hold their conventions in Camden, N.J., and Chester, Pa. Read more
"They fear freedom. They don't trust themselves or others to do the right thing without strict rules to follow." Especially if those others are women. Or LGBT people. Or poor people. Or black, or Latino, or Asian, or Muslim, or atheist, or ... Read more
The Power of Gayness is more powerful than death. It is more powerful than life. It is more powerful than angels, rulers, things present or things to come. It is more powerful than powers -- more powerful than height, and depth, and everything in all creation. That's what a lot of Christians keep telling me, anyway, because they keep saying that just being gay or lesbian, bisexual or transgender, somehow separates people from the love of God. Read more
Flooding in Mulberry disrupts bigot's plans. If you don't know how to tell what kind of story you're reading, then you don't really know how to read. Business lobbyists mystified that minimum-wage workers aren't buying more of the stuff they're trying to sell. Two Hugos in my blogroll! Diana Nyad makes history. Texas Baptists and their critics in the press. Read more
Moon declared himself a god and a Messiah, but it’s far easier just to recast God and the Messiah in your own image and then go from there. It takes too much work to recruit tens of thousands of followers who will give you every penny they earn. It’s far easier just to maintain a database of tens of millions of “supporters” who can be relied on to send small checks to help you stop the Satanic baby-killers, the godless evolutionists, the Gay menace, and the socialist agenda of the Antichrist’s coming one-world government. Read more
Instead of worrying about whether or not we might one day be regarded as "on the wrong side of history," we should concern ourselves with whether or not we are, today, on the right side in history. And the important thing to remember about being on the right side in history is that it's not always -- or usually -- the same thing as the winning side. Read more
Fukushima is still bad, and way worse than we knew. Can we create ourselves without creating an enemy? Before the Web, Bill Watterson explained how newspapers would respond to the Web. What's the link between anti-abortion and anti-gay? "The Poop Cycle" -- one more reason you really don't want a too-small government. Why the prevailing idea of Christian "apologetics" is indefensible. Read more
For those who would maintain that the theonomists have never had any significant influence, I would point out here that one of their long-term aims has been to replace the words “rich” or “wealthy” with the more virtuous-sounding word “productive.” Judge for yourself, in 2011, whether or not their desired influence has been influential on that score. Read more
Numbers 15:15-16: "As for the assembly, there shall be for both you and the resident alien a single statute, a perpetual statute throughout your generations; you and the alien shall be alike before the Lord. You and the alien who resides with you shall have the same law and the same ordinance." Read more
"In 2037, the oldest baby boomers will be 92 years old. They will have been collecting Social Security benefits in full for 27 years. Those benefit payments will have added $0 to the federal budget deficit." Read more
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