The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life managed to make a strong comment on American faith without actually getting noticed – mostly because they pointed out that perhaps the faithful aren’t that faithful. If, that is, you define “faithful” as “doing things like Mom and Dad did”. That is, as most of us would [...]
Eileen notes that the Catholic Church has a new list of sins – and hypocrisy didn’t make the list! What do moral wild cards and the hermeneutic of love have in common? Once you find out – take a poll. A slightly scary question: What do you do if you find yourself in an illiterate [...]
I’ve noticed an uptick in people finding my site because they are looking for information on oil prices. Namely, everyone wants to know why oil is so expensive. The answer, simply put, is: George W. Bush. Or, more to the point, it’s Bush’s fiscal policies. When the government spends more in a single year that [...]
No. The campaign will go through the Democratic convention in Denver. Here’s why: Of the delgates determined by the electoral contests, Barack Obama has won 1,347 of 2,547, or 53% of all pledged delegates. 599 delegates remain to be awarded on the basis of electoral processes. At his current rate of capture, Barack Obama would [...]
So Bill Clinton wants Barack Obama to pretend like he is losing and accept a Veep slot with Hillary Clinton. What a douchebag! Douchebag in Chief Leave it to the Democrats to come up with even more douchebaggery, though: NY Governor Elliot Spitzer tries to one-up Nelson Rockefeller by skipping the romp-and-marry-your-campaign-worker gig by procuring [...]
I got started using blogger and never really had much of a problem with them. I still have my blogger site up to use as archives. But then blogger got bought out or something and I had to change my username to sign-in and now I have no idea how to get into the damn [...]
The rat takes the cheese…the cheese stands alone… It’s semi-official. Barack Obama has won the all-important state of Wyoming. If that isn’t destiny, then how do you get Destiny’s Child? Tuesday is Alabama. After that, we wait for April 22 and Pennsylvania. Unless, of course, Florida and Michigan decide to revote prior to that time. [...]
I don’t think I’m going to wrap this one up in a neat package. If you come here often, you may be used to that. One of the phrases I keep track of vie Google Alerts is “Progressive Faith” (I also track “Faithful Left”, the term I prefer, but I tend to get a lot [...]
There is no shortage of people telling Barack Obama what to do in order to regain the initiative in the Democratic primary. When I refer to this as “conventional wisdom“, I’m doing it in the derisive tone used by John Kenneth Galbraith when he coined the term. From “The Concept of Political Wisdom”: As a [...]
Bill Gates is no longer the richest man in the world – that honor now goes to Warren Buffett (who is not kin to Jimmy Buffett – and has never lived in Margaritaville). Of course, if you buy the conservative rhetoric, the greatest impediment to every single person being an uber-billionaire is that the wealthy [...]
