This morning, I was watching one of the local religious television stations, listening to a preacher describe his beliefs about what heaven will be like. He described "walking hand-in-hand with Jesus and having Jesus answer all of my questions about how he created the Universe." I was dumbfounded. Walking hand-in-hand…
I just had a (loud) discussion with a pro-life friend who told me what his church is telling people about this amendment. Now, this guy is intelligent and literate, but has fully bought into the Bible-as-inerrant-literal-truth philosophy. Maybe you've read Erich's Missouri Amendment 2 entry from April. Maybe not. Here…
According to this article by McClatchy, U.S. federal spending “increased by 9 percent in fiscal 2006, the biggest jump since 1990. It's risen sharply for education, agriculture and several non-defense programs as well as for the war on terrorism and homeland security.” Surprising to me, defense and homeland security account for…
Boy, am I out of the loop. I don't work in an office, have no kids in school, don't watch TV or pay to have ads delivered to my house in a daily paper. I didn't know it was Columbus Day until I noticed that my outgoing mail failed to…
The NYT reports today on the violence that permeates middle class Iraq: Three and a half years after the American invasion, the relentless violence that has disfigured much of Iraqi society is hitting young Iraqis in new ways. Young people from five Baghdad neighborhoods say that their lives have shrunk to…