How bad is the economy? Real bad: The actual decline in the gross domestic product — at a 3.8 percent annual rate — fell short of the 5 to 6 percent that most economists had expected for the fourth quarter. But that was because consumption collapsed so quickly that goods piled up in inventory, unsold [...]
I was asked to participate in a boycott of New Orleans. While I appreciate the intent – and I agree with the statement that GLBT people should not be asked to accept second-class treatment – I simply can’t participate. First of all, I wasn’t going to New Orleans anyway. I think it is pretty much [...]
It looks like Debra Haffner’s objections (and mine) are in the process of being confirmed. Anti-abortion groups, it would seem, are only willing to reduce the number of abortions when it is done on their terms. Otherwise, they get downright devious. I mean, how does one, with a straight-face, use Barack Obama’s rise to the [...]
An email conversation landed me here. From beginning with a description over the controversy of allowing Rick Warren to speak at the Inaugural, the author moves on to denounce all public prayer. He writes: Which brings us back to Jesus’ disciples. Only instead of needing someone to teach us how or what to pray, we [...]
I have Debra Haffner to thank for pointing me to this. And, in Debra’s words: I have written many times that one cannot label oneself progressive without a commitment to sexual justice. I’d just say “a commitment to justice”, but that’s fine. Debra’s problem with the effort is that it doesn’t really seem to have [...]
My life has been relatively untouched by violence. At least, the deadly kind. To my knowledge, no family member has ever been murdered. We’ve never been victimized by terrorists. I can’t imagine – and don’t want to – what it would be like to have someone I love torn out of life by someone else’s [...]
Some things you can’t make up: Bush’s presidency began with the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil and ends with the worst economic collapse in three generations. And in between we had America endorsing torture and indefinite imprisonment, Katrina, Abu Ghraib… “I have often spoken to you about good and evil,” he added. “This has [...]
Amid the furor from the left over Obama inviting Rick Warren to give an invocation, there have been small additions that would refute some of the more stupid assertions from the left (like somehow Obama has undergone a complete theological shift). First, Obama asked Rev. Sharon Watkins to deliver the sermon at the National Prayer [...]
I really don’t understand why liberals continue to try and remake reality. For example: Don’t blame blacks. Blame Mormons? Or you can look at Nate Silver’s semi-statistical analysis. Or you can read the spin from the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force: An in-depth analysis of the Proposition 8 vote released today shows that party [...]
A psychologist I used to work for often told this story: A man went next door to borrow his neighbor’s lawnmower. However, his neighbor refused. “My wife is making meatloaf,” the neighbor said. “What does that have to do with me and the lawnmower?” the man asked. “Oh, nothing,” the neighbor said. “But if I [...]
