What Kind of Conscientious Objectors Are These?
2015-06-30 – Forty-some years ago, as the Vietnam War was still raging, I had a decision to make: would I apply for conscientious objector status or leave the country rather […]
Monthly Archives: June 2015
Marriage, Not a Corporation
2015-06-28 – Until Friday, I was of the opinion that gay lovers might have more legal success cementing their union by forming a corporation than by getting married. But on […]
Flying a Confederate Flag is a Poke in the Eye
2015-06-25 – When folks folks tell me they don’t mean anything racist when they display the Confederate flag, I believe them. Some of the time. There’s no doubt about the […]
Supreme Court Turns to the Left?
2015-06-23 – It’s been a tactic of the political right to accuse the political center of being out-of-touch lefitists. That makes the near right the new center and the far […]
What Mission? Who’s Left Behind?
2015-06-21 – Another gunman has provided us with evidence of the Rapture, only it’s not exactly the Rapture that the faithful await. In case you’ve just tuned in the Rapture […]
My Dog Lefty Self-Identifies as a Beaver
2015-06-18 – My dog Lefty gnaws on trees. I am not kidding. In his youth he gnawed the bark off one tree in our backyard from the ground up to six […]
Why Are Belligerent Policies Assumed to Be Successful?
2015-06-16 – I read an interesting article yesterday in Tablet Magazine called “Why Is Obama Abandoning 70 Years of U.S. Nonproliferation Policy?” Now I am not a fan of Iran, […]
Every Day Is Opposite Day! (No it Isn’t!)
2015-06-14 – We seem to be living a never-ending Opposite Day—you know: the time when you try to say or do the opposite of everything I say or do. I […]
Social Pressure: Churches and Gangs
2015-06-11 – It seems that former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is being tagged with advice from his own book. Back in 1995 he wrote a chapter called “The Restoration of […]
Revenge Is Not Enough
2015-06-09 – The saga of the Duggar family and their wayward son comes at the intersection of at least two of my cultural blind spots. I don’t follow reality TV […]
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