An all-too-commonly heard claim is that this nation was founded on “Judeo-Christian principles,” that its laws are based on the Ten Commandments (hereinafter the “Decalogue”), and that the founding of this “Christian nation” was accomplished by Christian men who undertook… Continue Reading
There is no special icon for Google today! What the hell! Don’t those commies up there in Mountain View know what an important day today is? Well, the fact is that nearly any day you pick will have some event… Continue Reading
Mitch Daniels is the Governor of Indiana. He is a dark-horse possibility for the Republican nomination for President in 2012, although I’m not entirely sure of how much traction that would get. But he has raised his profile significantly by… Continue Reading
I caught the tail end of the President’s address from the Oval Office tonight on NPR as I drove home. It’s hard to believe that he’s been in office over a year and not before used this vehicle for communicating… Continue Reading
You know, I have to feel sorry for the church whose famous six-story statue of Jesus arising from a reflecting pool was struck by lightning and burned to its metal skeleton yesterday. No, really, I do. It was an expensive… Continue Reading
I suppose that a reason why doctors, or at least their offices, are so disrespectful of their patients’ time is that so many of their patients are retired and presumably have plenty of time to give. Not so for professionals… Continue Reading
I just received the most extraordinary email. A reader went through a bunch of my posts and corrected many of my (plentiful) grammatical errors. After three years of minutely examining the same sorts of things from students, this feels like… Continue Reading
The top overall vote-getters for Governor yesterday were: Edmund G. “Jerry” Brown 1,478,752 Meg Whitman 1,101,528 Steve Poizner 461,823 So under the old rules, Brown and Whitman are their party’s nominees and will face off against each other in November.… Continue Reading
When I was a kid, I began to really enjoy baseball by following the 1981 Milwaukee Brewers, and then Pete Rose’s pursuit of Ty Cobb’s hit record; Rose would have been one of my first baseball heroes and his fall… Continue Reading