This video seems to be everywhere. It needs to be everywhere. "We need to worry about wealth inequality," Ezra Klein writes. But while worry is appropriate, it is inadequate. Let's consider this video the "whereas" clause of our resolution. And then let's get to work writing the "therefore, be it resolved" section. Read more
Azhar Abbas, in her leopard-print tops and oversized jewelry, drove a van full of schoolchildren every day while living under Saddam’s dictatorship and then kept driving through the chaos of invasion, of a bungled occupation and civil war. Azhar Abbas is awesome. Read more
It's an hour later than it feels like, so here are some weekend links to help you sing your didn't and dance your did, including: the Christians who will never be happy and their opposite; dark comedy on dark ops; immigration reform and the failure of for-profit prisons; a scarier hockey stick; Congress forbids funding groups that don't exist; Pixar and Bonhoeffer; bees buzz; and Eric Idle on John Cleese. Read more
Leviticus 25:23-24: "The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; with me you are but aliens and tenants. Throughout the land that you hold, you shall provide for the redemption of the land." Read more
When Alex Trebek asks you about the capital of Australia, you'd better say "Canberra" or you're going to lose. When Richard Dawson or his successors ask that question on Family Feud, you'd better be prepared to answer "Sydney" or "Melbourne" or "Vienna," because those hundred people surveyed may have never seen a map. Read more
This legislation matters first of all because it would protect the rights of pregnant workers. But it also matters because it tests the integrity of the pro-life movement. So far, that movement is failing that test. Read more
Leftovers from the week that was, including: Some handy definitions from Bruce; more Stupid Things Adults Say to Children; poll shows hierarchy ignores the sensus fidelium; more New Hampshire legislature follies; the Malaysian gravy train; the weird and wonderful Tom Mullica; and the candidate who has what it takes to be governor of Illinois. Read more
No. 23. In the year 2000, Dick Cheney did paid work for both Saddam Hussein and George W. Bush. How many other people can say that? Read more
I think this all flows out of the authors' misunderstanding of the idea of "worldliness." For them, to be "worldly" is to be evil. And thus to be good is to avoid "the world" -- to shun it lest it's contaminating contagion of "worldliness" infect them with its evil. Read more
It's the Friday music game -- I'll show you mine, you show me yours. This week more songs with names in the title: Belshazzar, Ben, Bennie, Bernice, Bess, Betty, Bill, Billie, Billy, Billy Joe, Blake, Bobby, Brenda, Bryn, Bud and Buzz. Read more
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