January 16, 2007 You Cannot Petition The Lord With Prayer! I had started noticing the puzzling logic of petitionary prayer. What was the theory of God behind prayer websites, for example: that God is…
January 12, 2007 A Truthful Inconvenience A school lets a right-wing nutball (and his obedient wife) stop them from showing “An Inconvenient Truth:” “Condoms don’t belong in school, and neither…
January 12, 2007 Doom Bearing Down Before the 2004 election a misguided friend wrote to me, telling me to vote for Bush, that Kerry had the “deer-in-the-headlights look.” I forgive…
January 12, 2007 The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking I have to say, Madame Secretary, that I think this speech given last night by this president represents the most dangerous foreign policy blunder…
January 12, 2007 PT Strikes Again Pete Townshend, on being a rock icon: How does it feel to be regarded as a living legend? I am content with it. I…
January 11, 2007 Committed to War What a speech. Did you make it through? I didn’t. Once I realized that we hadn’t won the war I turned it off. Okay,…
January 11, 2007 The L Word I’ve taken a couple of different quizzes and, no surprise, I am (still) a left-leaning libertarian liberal. I’m kind of like Ghandi or The…
January 8, 2007 The Year, So Far A slow start to 2007 and I blame it on the post-hanging hangover. For days after I had a spring in my step and…