In an earlier post, I wondered how God is going to entertain his followers up in heaven for all eternity, especially those who enjoy the less ethereal forms of entertainment (like jet skis). Now, my question is about hygiene. I occasionally look after my neighbor's two dogs. Recently, after walking…
A Jesuit college in St. Louis just won a Missouri Supreme Court case allowing them to get public money, $8 million of it, for their college. Not being one that believes public money should be spent in support of religion, I was aghast. "How could that possibly happen?" you might say. The answer…
It never takes long for people to exploit a tragedy when they have something to gain from doing so. President Bush, who has done virtually nothing notable this year, has dropped whatever he had on his calendar for today so that he can swoop down on Virginia Tech, the site…
For a long time now, I've been deeply frustrated and annoyed by the ongoing use of the term "war" to describe the situation in Iraq. Pardon me, but the "war" in Iraq ended several years ago, when all of their troops surrendered. What we have there now is a military…
Some people just don't get it -- that invading Iraq was a bad idea. John McCain is one. Unfortunately, Hillary Clinton is another one, though she does at least have a plan to end the occupation. It really amazes me that such otherwise smart people still declare that invading Iraq was a…