Cartoon moment
[Thanks to Milard Draudt for permission to reprint this cartoon here. I noticed this cartoon in Funny Times, which I dutifully read every month]
Murtha’s plan and the war (of words)
When I see how this war of words is going on, it depresses me. As reported by DailyKos: The GOP is trying to frame Murtha's plan of requiring improved troop readiness as the exact opposite. According the GOP: Murtha's plan is to "cut funding", is a "strategy to pull the…
Electing a person of competence over a “person of faith”
Mitt Romney proudly stood up for himself today. He boldly told a large Florida crowd what kind of president we need to elect in 2008: "One of the great things about this land is that we have people of different faiths and different religions, but we need to have a person…
“It Was A Pleasure To Burn…”
February's Big Read in Missouri has selected a surprising novel--Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. I should not assume everyone today has read it, so briefly it is a novel about a future in which it is illegal to read books. The fire department, because all houses are built of fireproof…
Split Opinion on Young Earth in an Individual. Or Split Personality?
I was sent this New York Times article in which a Young Earth Creationist gets a real PhD in paleontology. How does he do it? Dr. Ross said, the methods and theories of paleontology are one “paradigm” for studying the past, and Scripture is another. In the paleontological paradigm, he…