Rand Paul and Fiction
2013-10-31 – People are up in arms about Rand Paul’s “plagiarism” of a Wikipedia article on the science fiction film Gattaca. I’m not going to join that chorus. He used […]
Monthly Archives: October 2013
Global Questions
2013-10-29 – You listen to people of faith. You listen to people of science. And you hear the same stuff. Talk about beginning. Talk about ends. Talk about how we […]
Flip Side of Francis
Pope Francis has sent the world into a tizzy with these words: “We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods.” To […]
HealthCare.gov is Very Extremely Average
2013-10-24 – Jon Stewart thinks it’s a scandal that only 10% of the people who went to HealthCare.gov completed the process (i.e., bought health insurance—at approx. 02:40 of this video). […]
Why I Am a Conservative (And They’re Not)
2013-10-22 – For several decades now I’ve been listening to people claim to be conservatives who don’t even remotely fit the definition. Conservative are supposed to want to preserve […]
What a Piece of Work Is Man!
2013-10-20 – One of the arguments against evolution is the perfection of God’s creation. Evolution, apparently, can’t arrive at a creature as noble as man. I’m not sure who can […]
Instant Replay
2013-10-17 – You might get mad at the refs for a bad call, but did you ever wonder what your favorite sport might look like if there were no […]
Wastin’ Away Without a Shaker of Salt
2013-10-15 – Does this happen to you? Probably not. But it happens to me all the time. I say probably not because people act as if it is strange […]
It’s Like a Refi at a HIGHER Rate
If Republicans wanted to hold the line on government spending, they would increase the debt limit without the slightest hesitation. Here’s why: failing to raise the debt limit could […]
A “Timered Bomb”
2013-10-10 – Those of us who were there Tuesday morning didn’t think of ourselves as heroes. We just did what had to be done. It is only now, two days […]
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