Corporate Subsidy
2013-11-03 – A couple days ago there was a post floating around Facebook saying that US taxpayers, on average, pay $36 apiece per year to support the food stamp program […]
Tag Archives: Culture
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
It’s Not the Stockholm Syndrome
2013-10-06 – I love Ted Cruz. I once would have been ashamed to say this. And it’s not because he’s a guy and I’m straight. It’s because he’s a Tea […]
Hernia? Jesus!
2013-10-01 – Happy Diogenes Day! If you’ve been reading my blog recently, you know that today is the day for celebrating truth telling. But I’ve written enough on the subject […]
Diogenes Day Is October 1
2013-09-29 – September may seem an odd time to write about April Fools’ Day. But last April, I got to thinking about how April Fools’ Day had lost its special […]
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