The scene at first is quiet, but then a rumbling begins, growing steadily louder. Suddenly a train bursts into view, moving from left to right. The sound is deafening as its lighted windows roll by in a blur. With a startling suddenness, the last car of the subway train passes, the rumbling recedes, and we see again the empty subway platform. Read more
From Neil Steinberg: "Ask the next rabbi you see if he feels oppressed because the United States government doesn’t enforce Jewish dietary laws. He’ll take a step back — distancing himself from the crazy person — and say, 'No, and believe me, we know what real oppression is.'" Read more
Things parents should never have to teach their children. "The Greatest Game Ever Pitched." A bad idea all the way around. Ralph Reed's punishment is having to be Ralph Reed. "What is to prevent me from being baptized?" How to blow your mind with a deck of cards or with 12 notes. Spare parts and broken hearts in Jersey. Read more
Either the massive numerical claims of all those evangelists are seriously exaggerated, or else there is an equally massive exodus in which the same number of people as they're bringing in through the front doors of the church are sneaking out the back. Read more
This cello composition just keeps getting hotter and hotter. Thank you, Pam Spaulding, and well done. Eric Metaxas is scared of the conspiracy of international Jewish bankers. Scams, frauds and other bad charities. No, Christians do not have a duty to patronize and subsidize bad art. Read more
But the problem, in her inquisitor's eyes, is that this passage is not itself a clobber-text. He reads the Bible like a child playing the old card game of "War." He puts down his card -- a clobber-text from Leviticus. And now it's her turn to play her card. If she doesn't have a corresponding clobber-text that trumps his, then he wins. Read more
"Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard," St. Paul wrote in response to just these questions, and God help me the best story I know about such unseeable and unhearable things is Flatland. Read more
If those 74 million Americans were to get a raise of another $2.25/hour, they would spend that money. And they wouldn't spend it at Macy's. They would spend it at Walmart. A minimum-wage increase would be a huge revenue windfall, a sales bonanza for Walmart. Read more
"World War G." Stranger than you think, even accounting for the fact that you're thinking it's stranger than you think. A bumper-sticker. Gary Bauer pretends that Fred Phelps does not exist. Delaware offers some protection for manufactured-home owners. Pregnant Workers Fairness Act still a test that many are failing. What the Internet is for: two examples. Read more
Once again, these people do not believe in empathy. They don’t understand the concept. They don’t even allow for the possibility of it. Read more
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