Following up on a story I discussed in October and again in November, concerning a Latin cross atop a municipal water tower in the Western Tennessee town of Whiteville, the Freedom From Religion Foundation was apparently unimpressed with the town’s defiant Mayor’s… Continue Reading
This week’s question is going to be a little trickier than some, so I am going to give out several hints at once. Arizona, Connecticut, Florida, Idaho, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Oregon,… Continue Reading
Dear sweet baby Jesus, Please please please please please make the bad people at Google change the GMail interface back to what it used to be. I hate the new interface. The mail items are spaced too widely apart. The… Continue Reading
The criteria for the game: the person must have been on an active roster of an NFL team at some point in the active season. On the IR list counts, on waivers counts only if the player was on a… Continue Reading
I’ve had two extraordinary bottles recently, both obtained at reasonable expense, and both of which demonstrated the benefit that comes from cellaring. Now, some Readers find reading about someone else drinking wine an astonishingly insipid subject, like having to listen… Continue Reading
Attempting to arrest his meteoric flameout from the GOP’s good graces, Rick Perry is running this ad on TV in Iowa: I’m not ashamed to admit that I’m a Christian, but you don’t need to be in the pew every Sunday to know… Continue Reading
I loves me them Mythbusters. (Warning — link to the show autoloads to loud audio.) But they can only blow up stuff for so long before something goes wrong. And it finally did — seems that they shot a cannon through… Continue Reading
My plan is to run chronologically through a series of U.S. Supreme Court cases and attempt to make them comprehensible to the intelligent layman. While my focus will be on constitutional issues, I may deviate from that from time to… Continue Reading
The prospect of Donald Trump moderating a debate is what finally made things click. It occurred to me the other day as I was leaving a comment elsewhere: if someone had written a TV show and the plot followed the… Continue Reading
I wanted to share a quick thought about E.D. Kain’s very recent column at Forbes, but (sorry, Erik) commenting at Forbes is a laborious process which I have never successfully completed. I’m not even going to try this time. Thus,… Continue Reading