Month: December 2007
No, This Is Not An Assault On Christianity (Updated)
I didn’t even know that Los Angeles County’s seal even had a cross on it, so I also didn’t know that the County Supervisors voted to remove it in 2004. They did so fearing a suit for violation of the… Continue Reading
But Of Course There’s A Double Standard
In the WaPo today, Richard Cohen fumes that “It is absurd that [Mitt] Romney feels compelled to deliver a speech defending his beliefs and that [Mike] Huckabee does not have to explain how, in this day and age, he does… Continue Reading
Improbability, Or, My First Step Towards Atheism
Can we all agree that there are some theories that are simply not worth considering? I’m not talking (specifically) about theories like evolution or theism. Just, in a general sense, some proposed explanations are, on their face, so ridiculous that… Continue Reading
Four Weeks Left
The New England Patriots are 12-0, having just barely escaped both the Eagles and the Ravens in their last two games. If the Pats can win two more games, they will have locked up home field advantage throughout the playoffs,… Continue Reading
Candidate Analysis of Mitt Romney
Biography W. Mitt Romney will be 61 years old on the next Inauguration Day. He is the son of a very political family; his father was the Governor of Michigan, was one of Richard Nixon’s Secretaries for Housing and Urban… Continue Reading
Good News Monday
Good news on the international front brought to you today by the BBC. First, it appears that our evaluation (meaning that of the United States) of the threat of a nuclear Iran has been ratcheted down from “high alert” to… Continue Reading
Movie Review: The Golden Compass
The Wife and I went to a sneak preview screening of The Golden Compass tonight. I left the movie feeling unsatisfied, although I can’t precisely explain why. Part of it surely was all of the religious controversy surrounding the movie,… Continue Reading
Country Music Is Too Damned Wholesome
While at the hardware store today, I couldn’t hear what The Wife was saying to me because the people who run the store were playing the local country music station really loudly. And the lyrics were all so… nice! Not… Continue Reading
Why The Customer Is Always Right, Or, Hugo Chavez Threatens To Cut Off His Own Nose To Spite The United States
Hugo Chavez, the unabashedly America-baiting leftist wannabe-dictator of Venezuela, is trying to push through a referendum that would restructure Venezuela’s constitution, permit him to run for re-election indefinitely, and allow him to sidestep the legislature and courts of that country… Continue Reading