2011-04-08T16:27:33-04:00

From today’s paper: “Civil unions bill clears big hurdle“: The Delaware Senate on Thursday approved the state’s first civil unions bill, voting by a 2-to-1 ratio to grant the same legal rights and protections to same-sex couples that married couples have. … In the end, the bill — S.B. 30 — emerged from a chamber that has often been a cemetery for gay-rights bills passed first by the House of Representatives. The bill, sponsored by Sen. David P. Sokola, D-Newark,... Read more

2011-04-08T06:16:01-04:00

I waited all my life for just a little death … “Kerosene,” Miranda Lambert “Kerosene Hat,” Cracker “Key of C,” Jim Noir “Key to the Highway,” The Band “Kick,” INXS “Kickin’ My Heart Around,” The Black Crowes “Kid,” Pretenders “Kid A,” Radiohead “Kid About It,” Elvis Costello & The Attractions “Kid Fears,” Indigo Girls “The Kids Are Alright,” Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs “The Kids Don’t Stand a Chance,” Vampire Weekend Who’s missing from that list? Who’s missing from that... Read more

2011-04-07T15:54:08-04:00

Tony Jones, discussing Rob Bell’s Love Wins, asks: Is God outside of time, or is God somehow bound to time as we experience time? … Rob takes biblical words dealing with eternity to mean the transcendence of time. This would seem to imply that God transcends time. But if God transcends time, what does it mean to say that God eventually gets what God wants? Is God bound by time or not? And, if not, what does “eventually” mean? I... Read more

2011-04-06T17:00:57-04:00

This is how newspapers are supposed to work when they’re doing their job. First, a reporter does his job, taking a look at the economic reality facing the paper’s readers and the actual effects that proposed government policies will have on that reality. Michael Symons’ article “As poverty rises in NJ, cuts target aid” did exactly that. Poverty is rising, demand for food stamps has rocketed and the job market remains tepid at best, more than three years after the... Read more

2011-04-05T14:24:37-04:00

From The Economist: Mr Ryan’s plan ends the guarantee that all American seniors will have health insurance. The Medicare system we’ve had in place for the past 45 years promises that once you reach 65, you will be covered by a government-financed health-insurance plan. Mr Ryan’s plan promises that once you reach 65, you will receive a voucher for an amount that he thinks ought to be enough for individuals to purchase a private health-insurance plan. … If that voucher... Read more

2011-04-04T22:35:21-04:00

Tribulation Force, pp. 362-366 We should step back here and consider what Buck Williams is doing. Or rather, as usual, what he is not doing. A couple of weeks ago we wound up with a lively discussion of what we might do if we were in Buck’s shoes — faced with an imminent series of mass-casualty calamities that we knew were coming. Much of that discussion was about how we would try to get the word out, to sound the... Read more

2011-04-04T12:00:46-04:00

“The issue is injustice,” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said in his final speech. “The issue is the refusal of Memphis to be fair and honest in its dealings with its public servants, who happen to be sanitation workers.” That was 1968. Here in 2011, of course, we honor Dr. King with a national holiday and shake our heads sadly when remembering those dark days of the past in which public workers and public workers unions were demonized by shameless... Read more

2011-04-02T17:50:53-04:00

The headline there comes from Alan Greenspan, from his recent comments offered in lieu of a more appropriate statement begging for forgiveness from the entire world for recently destroying the global economy: With notably rare exceptions (2008, for example), the global “invisible hand” has created relatively stable exchange rates, interest rates, prices, and wage rates. Henry Farrell sees this statement as: “a carefully thought-out bid for Internet immortality. It has the sublime combination of supreme self-confidence and utter cluelessness …... Read more

2011-04-01T17:03:44-04:00

It’s Opening Day, so let me use that as an excuse to link to one of the most remarkable posts I’ve ever read on a baseball blog. Rany Jazayerli is a Kansas City Royals fan, which speaks well of him as a person. To be a Royals fan requires character, sincerity, humility, fidelity, commitment, courage and hope. Royals fans, like Cubs fans, are implicitly trustworthy and I wish Rany the best on Opening Day — especially when his Royals play... Read more

2011-04-01T06:18:10-04:00

Life is a path lit only by the light of those I’ve loved … “Jam,” Michael Jackson “James,” Huffamoose “James Bond Theme,” Leroy Holmes “Jamey’s Got the Blues,” Randy Stonehill “Jane Says,” Jane’s Addiction “Jangling Jack,” Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds “Janie Jones,” The Clash “Jasper Johns,” Twitchen Vibes “Jayne’s Blue Wish,” Tom Waits “Jazzman,” Carole King Since this list starts with Michael Jackson, here’s a bonus link to his favorite song. (That’s Janelle Monae singing a Charlie Chaplin... Read more

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