From the article in the Atlantic: Oprah, perhaps knowing his background, asked him what his favorite verse was. “Mine’s from Matthew,” Colbert replied. “I like it because Jesus says, ‘So I say to you, do not worry, for who among you by worrying could change a hair on his head, or add a cubit to […]
Yesterday I wrote about why no has been talking about the Democrats. Well today the worm has turned. Everybody is talking about the Democrats. The debate was pretty good. I mean, as good as a debate can be without Donald Trump. Five candidates seems like the right number, totally digestible without getting dull. And in […]
http://news.discovery.com/space/alien-life-exoplanets/is-stephen-hawking-right-about-hostile-aliens-151012.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1 I agree with Doc Hawk on this. If an alien race is advanced enough to track us down there’s no reason to think they’d view us with any particular level of dignity. They’d probably consider us a subspecies. We barely have regard for sustainability within our own atmosphere, so if we found usable resources […]
This blog’s mission statement, if it ever had one, is that we go after everyone indiscriminately. We do our best to avoid a particular political bent and instead just tell it like it is. Or, at least, like it appears to be. But lately I’ve been focused on the Right. Across the board, the talk […]
First of all, who knew that George A. Romero’s original Night of the Living Dead was in the public domain? Cool! Second, here’s an interesting but thin commentary from The Federalist, “Here’s What’s Behind Our Obsession With Zombies”: The zombie genre is essentially conservative. Survival is always based upon the actions of individuals and small groups, and […]
Who saw this coming? Kevin McCarthy, the House Majority Leader, announced that he is dropping his bid to to succeed John Boehner as Speaker of the House. Until today McCarthy was the only name most people had heard floated to replace Boehner. He was the presumed favorite by a long shot. McCarthy’s decision to drop out […]
Ben Carson: brain surgeon, soft spoken, good-natured, ultra-Christian. And, evidently, super tough guy with the ability to take on armed assailants using only his wits. At least, he could if the opportunity ever came up… Not unlike a professional wrestler riling up his fans, Carson had this to say about last week’s mass shooting in […]
The NFL made it through the month of September without a single player arrested. Good for them! If that doesn’t seem newsworthy I should note that it’s the first time this has happened since 2009. This might seem like nothing to be proud of, but I think the League tends to get a bad rap […]
Fivethirtyeight is quickly becoming one of my favorite blogs on the web. Some great content today with an analysis of SCOTUS and the Justices leanings over time, which shows that all Justices, even the Conservatives, lean liberal as they age: There’s an old saw, often mistakenly attributed to Winston Churchill, that goes something like this: […]
Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens must be a bit bored these days. So bored, in fact, that he decided to write a diatribe on Second Amendment jurisprudence for the Washing Post. An excerpt: As a result of the rulings in Heller and McDonald, the Second Amendment, which was adopted to protect the states […]
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