I had to turn off the Brian Lehrer Show today because the entire premise of their “End of War” discussion was just so vile and hateful that I couldn’t stomach it. The series is aimed at logically discussing the idea of whether or not war is a necessary part of the world, or is it [...]
Today, the US Senate killed an amendment to a Highway Bill that would have allowed employers to cherry-pick what health procedures they would not want to cover for their employees, based on the morality of the employer. This amendment, which was purely symbolic because it had no chance of becoming law, demonstrates a lot of [...]
The news out of Penn State is anything but good. But it does tell us a lot about ourselves culturally. Some of it is good. Most of it is not. The facts are pretty straight forward. Several years ago, Mike McCreary witnessed Jerry Sandusky raping a boy in the shower room. McCreary, who was then [...]
I think it probably says something about where I stand on 9/11 as a generational and national moment that I completely forgot that Sunday was the tenth anniversary. I got up, got dressed, got my boys up and dressed, we had breakfast, and we headed out to try on a new church. We walked right [...]
It is a bit of irony that a country founded on the belief that “all men are created equal” and maximizing individual freedom should still find itself so…unable to cope with issues involving race. And especially our history of racism. I’m talking about this little story: Officials in the rural Virginia city where Robert E. [...]
About a month ago, I happened upon a site called “The Good Men Project”. Immediately both my interests and my hackles were raised. I was interested because I believe the common role of men in society is too limiting and the anti-emotionality, anti-intellectualism, and one-way sexuality messages given to men is actively dangerous. I was [...]
Charles Krauthammer has a defense of politics-as-usual. And he is actually right about a couple of things – democracy is supposed to be messy and our government is supposed to be ponderously slow. But he’s very much wrong about several things, too. When he talks about the debt ceiling theater, he writes: But they did [...]
Newsweek’s cover of Michelle Bachman is causing a stir. Of course, there is no shortage of conservatives/Republicans who are blaming ideology for a bad picture. But how short memories are. The problem is, apparently, Newsweek doesn’t know how to hire a photographer who knows how to take a decent photo of a woman. Is it [...]
With all the hullabaloo over whats-his-crazy-name shooting Congresswoman Giffords, I thought I’d say a few things – which will probably make people on all sides cringe. I’ve been trying to find the right way to do it, but I decided I’d just let it fall how it may. First of all, it isn’t the fault [...]
