You may not both 1) intentionally target and incinerate 140,000 noncombatants and 2) not be a monster. Read more
You may not both 1) intentionally target and incinerate 140,000 noncombatants and 2) not be a monster. Read more
Ken Ham and other young-Earth creationists maintain that the universe is about 6,000 years old. Here's a list of recent items in the news that are all older than that -- from dinosaurs to Doggerland. Read more
Defeating the Dragons: "The spirit, the beliefs, the ideas, the system that keeps the legalism alive is the problem. There’s nothing there worth protecting, and all of it deserves to be destroyed. Because this system is built on an ugly foundation of power, abuse, domination, and control. The people who perpetuate it aren’t there because they genuinely love people and want to protect them. Legalism gives them the power to wield massive control over entire groups of people – but they can only do that not because of the rules, but because of belief." Read more
"Stacker Pentecost" is pretty much a two-word poem that one could annotate for hours. The GOP's "outreach" to women and black voters has little to do with women and/or black voters. John Scalzi's sermon on the Sermon on the Mount. Racist right-wing police "chief" gets suspended. How being utterly wrong before the financial collapse of 2008 qualifies you to be a central banker. Japan looks to harness the wind and the waves. "The goal of Project Pterosaur is to mount an expedition to locate and bring back to the United States living specimens of pterosaurs or their fertile eggs. ..." Read more
The main problem is not that we have 147,913 structurally deficient bridges in America. The deeper problem is that we do not seem to have a reliable maintenance system in place for this essential aspect of our infrastructure. Deferred infrastructure maintenance, like deferred health care, winds up being more expensive in the long run. We need to do more than just fix 147,913 bridges. We need to put in place a system that can perform, and fund, regular and ongoing maintenance and repair. Read more
1. Congratulations to Rodrigo Borda and Sergio Miranda, the first same-sex couple to register to marry in Uruguay. Yes, Uruguay. Memo to my representatives in Harrisburg: You’re playing catch-up with Montevideo. The 21st-century just called, it says you’re invited to join. 2. North Carolina. North Carolina. North Carolina. North Carolina. North Carolina. North Carolina. North Carolina. North Carolina. 3. If our elected representatives were smart and/or moral, we would be taking advantage of the free money of negative interest rates and investing in a massive lead eradication... Read more
Malala Yousafzai on the "tiny, little conservative" god of the violent extremists who tried to kill her. George Saunders on kindness. Jessica Mason Pieklo on purity culture as a successful legal argument. Elizabeth Drescher and Jesse Curtis on the white church's response to the verdict in the slaying of Trayvon Martin. Read more
If you're wondering why working-class Delco remains a Republican stronghold, get to know Don Fey and to understand what his daughter describes as his "pre-Norman Lear racial attitudes." Read more
Right off the bat, then, we have a choice to make. We can choose to accept that this apparent variation is a feature of the book(s) we are reading, and we can then go about trying to learn what such variation has to teach us. Or we can choose to say that this appearance of variation is a problem that must be solved, and we can then go about trying to explain away every such apparent instance of variety, dispute or diversity within the canon in order to buttress our notion that it serves as a clear, simple, unequivocal and univocal authority that can be cited chapter-and-verse to settle all disputes and answer all questions. Read more
The body count in the Bible rivals that of the first Star Wars movie. A travel tip. Roger Williams vs. John Winthrop, forever. The personal testimonies Walmart doesn't want you to read. August Blues. Among us it shall be different. "But the nice ways always fail." Read more
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