Monthly Archives: January 2009

John McCain and Sarah Palin lost the election, so there’s really no need to keep going on about how Palin was a terrible candidate, but what am I supposed to do when she gives me an excuse to excoriate her … Continue reading →

Here’s one for the whisky-tango-foxtrot file: Joe the Plumber is now a war correspondent. And despite what Jimmy Orr implies in the opening lines of the linked article, Mr. the Plumber’s problem is not his inexperience, but his plain stupidity. … Continue reading →

Maybe at the end of the week I’ll have time to post something here again. I can almost see the light at the end of the tunnel: we’re going out to dinner, and then to the Philharmonic on Saturday night. … Continue reading →

The Story of Sodom and Gomorrah. Enjoy.

Last weekend I picked up a copy of John Loftus’ book Why I Became an Atheist. The subtitle is “A Former Preacher Rejects Christianity,” so you can probably guess most of the ground he covers. I wanted to read the book … Continue reading →

Vikram Amar and Alan Brownstein have a piece over at Findlaw’s Writ that gives a pretty good explanation why the Proposition 8 supporters doing all the moaning about “the will of the people” need to think a little more thoroughly … Continue reading →

One thing I miss about my undergraduate days as a music major was having the opportunity to encounter and participate in lots of different musical performance. So I always enjoy stories like this one from NPR: A small but growing number … Continue reading →