Siccing the modesty police on Beyonce won't help to stop sex trafficking. Beyonce isn't part of the problem. But the modesty police are. They feed the same ideology that fuels sex trafficking: "the belief that men are entitled to control women's bodies." Read more
Here's what we humans already knew and have known since before we started writing things down: Money is not sufficient for happiness. Money is necessary to avoid certain forms of unhappiness. It's really not that complicated. It only appears complicated to those who: A) have enough money; and B) don't have enough happiness. Read more
The generational dynamic in 2013 turns out to be the same as it was 20 years ago. You've got your older generation looking down their nose at the "slacker" youth because kids these days are apathetic and lazy and yadda yadda yadda. And you've got your younger generation pointing out that these so-called slackers are actually very engaged -- just because their activism takes a different form doesn't make it illegitimate, ineffective or unimportant. Read more
Some Thursday morning links, including: Sure signs they're hiding something; The Myth of Certainty II; McGrath 2, Creationism 0; separating Christianity from "the piles of intellectual rot and political carpet bags;" a giant head found floating in the Hudson; Scot McKnight defends Wrigley Field; and a tribute to a remarkable coach. Read more
Samir Naji al Hasan Moqbel is not accused or even suspected of any crime, but he's been in prison for 11 years; Elizabeth Esther on religious extremism; Chris Hayes compares terror fatalities to gun fatalities; Ta-Nehisi Coates assumes good faith and is proven wrong; and a senior U.S. district judge denounces the bad faith and lies used to restrict women's access to Plan B Read more
Set aside Corvino's tone and just consider the substance of his exegesis here. I don't see anything "liberal" in what he's doing with this passage. He reads the text and accurately, without spin or interpretation, conveys what it says. It's a straightforward, face-value reading of the text without any radical criticism or deconstruction or appeals to any esoteric scholarly theories. It's just the kind of "common-sense" Bible study that conservative evangelicals profess to practice. Read more
Praying that someone shoots the Satanic baby-killers; policies "marked by a deep mistrust of the people they target;" They Are Coming for Your Birth Control; marriage equality and antifeminism; "I can change my sexual preference tonight if I want to;" Richard Land falls upwards; "another generation of Tony Perkinses;" "JESUS + Mary;" and a sampling of recent ethnic/gender slurs from GOP officials. Read more
Americans like the Postal Service. They rely on it and rely on being able to rely on it. And the Postal Service is run by the government, even though it funds itself without any tax dollars. So if your whole political shtick is based on being anti-government, then the Postal Service is a threat you've got to get rid of. Read more
I grabbed some take-out, took a quick nap, took a shower, took some Advil, took the dog out, took my coffee black and took the Yaris to take the back-roads to work, where I took on taking inventory until quitting time, when I took off like a bat out of Hell. Read more
"In 1952, Congress passed a law establishing the National Day of Prayer as an annual religious observance. Quick: give me another sentence that uses the words 'Congress,' 'law,' 'establish' and 'religion.'" Read more
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