March 2010

An apocalyptic dream goes sour

March 30, 2010

I was frequently inattentive in Sunday school, so it’s possible I missed the part about Jesus endorsing  the murder of police. But at first glance, the plan by these dozen or so dopey loons in Michigan to battle the Antichrist seems at best quixotic, and at worst seriously in conflict with the core tenets espoused [...]

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Where’s she going with this?

March 27, 2010

The student has become the teacher. John McCain has to be wondering what sort of creature he’s created in Sarah Palin, now that he’s relegated to grinning foolishly behind her while she whips the Tea Party crowds into frenzied chants in Arizona. The summer of 2008 seems like a very long time ago. The picture [...]

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An impassioned call to inaction

March 25, 2010

I can remain on the sidelines no longer. Now that the influential blogger Mike Vanderboegh is counseling people opposed to health-care reform to articulate their views by breaking other people’s windows, I must weigh in on the side of reason. You’ve heard of Mike, of course. No? Actually, neither had I, until the Washington Post [...]

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Sex and the single priest

March 20, 2010

These apologies are getting kind of old. More boilerplate from the Vatican: Pope Benedict expressing “shame and remorse” for the rampant sexual abuse of young Catholics. This is bordering on ludicrous. Quick show of hands: Any Catholic out there who hasn’t had a run-in with a randy priest at some time in their formative years? [...]

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A Nancy Grace exclusive

March 19, 2010

This just in: Some rocks have been discovered on the sea floor just off Aruba. As always, you can trust Nancy Grace to run with the stories the mainstream media are afraid to touch. It seems a retired couple was snorkeling when they came across the rocks. They were taking pictures of fish, and when [...]

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It’s your identity. Sort of.

March 17, 2010

I sometimes jocularly refer to Facebook as “Fecesbook” — not because I have anything against the service, but because the opportunities for potty humor in America are so rare that a sophisticated blogger should not let one slide by. So, “Fecesbook.”  Get it? Hehe. Also, there’s this question of privacy, and how much of it [...]

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So ye call this a holiday, do ye?

March 16, 2010

It’s Saint Patrick’s Day Eve, which means that in Wichita, and hundreds of other cities around this great Irish nation of ours, people have already started getting drunk. Can you blame them? You don’t want St. Paddy’s Day to dawn without being three sheets to the wind, thoroughly in the bag, blasted, blotto, bombed and [...]

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The trouble with titillation

March 15, 2010

Like most people, one of the first things I do in the morning is go online and look at the news. Usually just the headlines are enough; those five or six words are all I need to know about, say,  the progress of health care or the latest natural disaster. Stories like that, there’s no [...]

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A good time to get going

March 14, 2010

Is it the middle of March already? Guess it’s time to update the blog, which keeps registering tiny anomalies on the ECG even when it’s unplugged. Kind of like my life these days. Not that I have anything particularly interesting to impart. But let’s try:  Just watched the latest Rickie Gervais movie, The Invention of [...]

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