One of the nice things about being a liberal is that you never need to pretend that you’re actually a barbaric hoodlum who only behaves civilly due to fear of punishment from the 101st Airborne. Read more
One of the nice things about being a liberal is that you never need to pretend that you’re actually a barbaric hoodlum who only behaves civilly due to fear of punishment from the 101st Airborne. Read more
Is this evidence of Christian hypocrisy or evidence of Christian honesty? Or is it just further evidence that Christians lack a coherent sexual ethic? Read more
Video of a basketball turnover for the ages, plus a dozen more reasons to celebrate, including: high school graduation rates going up and juvenile incarceration rates going down; equal benefits for equal service; more renewable energy capacity; conservatives standing up to David Barton's mendacity; a big vote in Illinois; a big step toward justice and greater public safety in Houston; good news on housing. Read more
I'm all in favor of public funding for sports stadiums, but only when the public owns a stake in the team. Otherwise it's a taxpayer subsidy of a private company that doesn't need taxpayers' help. Read more
… They are Dead and they were innocent: I will not Let you sacrifice their deaths To make injustice justice and God good! Read more
Tabloid newspapers are reporting on supposed "Satanism" that sounds precisely like what Jeffrey Victor describes as "pseudo-Satanism" -- a pose being struck in order to appear, and to feel, transgressive and rebellious. It's the sort of stuff a lazy production designer might come up with for a "Satanic cult" film, a hodge-podge of pop-culture symbolism concocted from the news, from folklore, from the movies, and from religious instruction unwittingly based on all of the above. Read more
The Tea Party movement bears a striking resemblance to the classic rumor-panic and witchhunt. It’s driven by rumors to become fearful and driven by fear to believe rumors — really outlandish, unbelievable, weirdly nightmarish rumors at that. Read more
The Web contains a great deal of misinformation, legend, BS, spin, error and outright falsehood. But on the Web, no mistake is ever more than 19 clicks away from its correction, and no lie is ever more than 19 clicks away from the truth. Read more
Polygamy is not an obscure feature in the Bible. It starts early, with Lamech, and continues throughout most of what we Christians call the Old Testament, shaping the stories of the most prominent characters -- Abraham, Moses, David. Read more
“The unemployment rate is still at a level which should cause politicians to panic. No one is panicking.” “If the minimum wage had risen in step with productivity growth [since 1968], it would be over $16.50 an hour today. That is higher than the hourly wages earned by 40 percent of men and half of women.” “More than half of the people who became unemployed during the recession found a new job within six weeks, but a majority of them found... Read more
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