Condoleezza Rice was going to speak from a prepared text. It was a text prepared to counter Biden's argument. A text prepared to argue that no priority was higher, more urgent or more deserving of funding than that of missile defense. It was a text prepared to be delivered on Sept. 11, 2001. Read more
No pious jackasses sit around pondering "Should Christians Take Insulin?" No insufferably holier-than-thou idiots pretend it would be deeply spiritual if they said, "Rattlesnake anti-venom can help, but it can also hinder our reliance on Christ." Yet when it comes to any kind of mental illness, evangelical Christians suddenly turn into Christian Scientists or Scientologists -- preferring "spiritual" treatments over medicine. Read more
For those who are, in fact, harrumphing in good faith, I'm perfectly willing to calibrate the principle more precisely, something like: You're not allowed to target noncombatants primarily and intentionally. What that means, of course, is neither more nor less than this: You're not allowed to kill civilians. Read more
Tim LaHaye's prophecy scheme tells us that after the Rapture, during the Great Tribulation, the Antichrist will rule over the entire world as the all-powerful dictator of an all-encompassing one-world government. LaHaye's prophecy also tells us that the first thing this Antichrist will do as head of the OWG is sign a peace treaty with the nation of Israel. See the problem here? Read more
It's the Friday music game -- I'll show you mine and you show me yours. This week, more songs with names in the title. Turns out the letter J is really popular, so this is just the first part of the J's, including: Jack, Jackson, James, Jamey, Jamie, Jane, Janie, Janine, Jason and Jayne. Read more
I do not believe in or worship a generic "kind of very comprehensive supreme being, Seeger-type thing" either. And I do not see how the First Amendment can be interpreted to allow the government to compel me to worship this squishy deity. That amendment contains no exception allowing for the establishment of a state religion if that religion is a flaccid and flimsy thing. Read more
"Roger Ebert was both a critic and an enthusiast. In his writing and his speaking about movies, his optimism about movies always shone through. He was rooting for movies to be good, and he was looking for things to like about them without ever overlooking their flaws. There was joy and love in his work, not just for the work itself but for the subject of his critique." Read more
You need to make $18.79 an hour to reasonably afford to rent an apartment. GOP plan says no Medicare until you turn 70. "Balance the budget just like a business must," says man whose business is $2.5 million in debt. Plus Dorothy Day, predatory lenders, senators defending predatory lenders, the death of a hero, and a study confirming that a disproportionate share of the very rich are jerks. Read more
"A resolution filed by Republican lawmakers would allow North Carolina to declare an official religion, in violation of the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Bill of Rights, and seeks to nullify any federal ruling against Christian prayer by public bodies statewide." Read more
Slowly, but surely, we're winning this argument. Slowly, gradually, more and more Christians are coming around to understanding the Apostle Peter's rooftop vision from God the same way that Peter understood it. Read more
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