I've written before about a distinction between the true believers of the religious right and the hucksters. These two groups seem to share a common agenda -- they have similar "stances" on just about everything, and they advocate for the same policies, politics and cultural goals. But they're actually working at cross-purposes. Read more
"It’s not a pension fund into which you put your money when you are young and from which you draw when you are old. It’s an immediate transfer from workers today to retirees today. That’s what it has always been." Read more
Some Thursday morning links, including: Explaining Derek Jeter; literal and serious are not the same; happiness and meaning are not the same; freedom and hegemonic domination are not the same; the new colors of Frankenyear II; and more peevishness at Mr. Clarks. Read more
"You can stop it. You can stop it easily because the system that's screwing you over can only keep screwing you over if you keep demanding that it do so." Read more
"We support biblical families," Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy says of his fast-food corporation. So let's take a look at some of those biblical families. Today's entry: Divorce. Read more
Uganda is 85-percent Christian. The U.S. is 70-percent Christian. This is not about missions or missionaries or the gospel, this is about outsourcing theocracy. And what these purported Christians are promoting in Uganda is evil. This is a tree bearing bad fruit. Read more
White evangelicals in the 1970s were upset with the U.S. Supreme Court, but that anger wasn't about Roe v. Wade or about abortion at all. That anger was about -- to borrow Ronald Reagan's preferred euphemism -- "state's rights." It was about the belief that "that we've distorted the balance of our government today by giving powers that were never intended in the constitution to that federal establishment." Read more
Watching Game 7 of that World Series on television back in New Jersey, I cheered and cheered. I didn't cry at all because Wayne Garrett didn't pop out to shortstop and I get to remember 1973 exactly the way I want to, the way I wish to, just like Al Mohler does. Read more
She blinded me with linkage: Fewer Americans doubting their own experience of the climate; Rawlsian rats; green-screen creationism; giant squid; a solar-powered coal museum; 10 good reasons to look up; and a few other science-y things I thought were pretty neat. Read more
"We support biblical families," Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy says of his fast-food corporation. So let's take a look at some of those biblical families. Today's entry: Caleb's clan. Read more
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