Question of the day
Maybe you are like me and you are like most of us and so you imagine that your looks and your brains and your accumulations
An open letter to the weeping conservative
Look, it’s not the end of the world, or America, or really much of anything. In fact, it could become the beginning of something. Here
Voting is its own revenge
On Election Day, it helps to keep in mind who is to blame for the mess we’re in. Which reminds me to share with you
Phineas and Ferb save America
If you agree with me that Phineas and Ferb is the smartest thing on television, and further, that SpongeBob Squarepants is directly responsible for the
On the virtue of burning things down
Some of you may appreciate my latest Good Letters post over at Patheos, in which I make the entirely reasonable suggestion that Penn State’s football
On the imperative of baby swaddling
Hey you, with the crying baby. I understand that this little person is, in deeply emotional, psychological, physiological, theological senses of the term, an extension
Abandoning children
The intellectual consensus seems to be that having children is miserable business. This consensus is built on shoddy thinking and shoddier statistics. The latest example
Conflict of Visions
I suppose the Constitution has seen better times. Time Magazine asked last year if it’s still relevant, a former Speaker of the House scoffed at
The heart is loveliest of all
This morning and throughout the day I’ve thought, in the little scraps and spaces of free time, what I might write here. Then I read
Why Journalists Fail
Let me run a theory about men and women by you. Your job is to tell me if you think the New York Times would
The Little Pope
Perhaps you’ve heard of Mark Driscoll, the tough-talking young Calvinist in the Pacific Northwest, the one who preaches with his shirt untucked and likes to
The Collapse of Western Civilization Begins in Your Dentist’s Chair
Some of you may like my latest offering for Image — an homage, if you will, to those noble members of the political, legal, financial,
