This is the second comment in as many days I’ve seen on this point. John McCain was born abroad, on a United States military base in the Panama Canal Zone. Does that make him ineligible under the United States Constitution, Article I, section 1, clause 5 (the “Natural Born Citizen Clause”)? The clause states that:
No [...]

I posted a short review of The Shack here, earlier. I would love to hear from my readers about another, related topic: the book’s marketing. In my opinion, the way in which The Shack has been marketed raises some disturbing questions, of a kind I don’t normally associate with “mainstream” “Christian” books.
First, there is the [...]

Lawrence Harrison has a great essay out on The End of Multiculturalism, in which he argues that multiculturalism is, ironically, both the root of the George W. Bush administration’s foreign policy difficulties and the causes of major crises here at home. Give it a read.

I recently read The Shack, which is a novel that came out last spring. In The Shack, a man whose daughter was murdered returns to the scene of the crime, where he meets with three people who claim to be the three persons of the Trinity (Papa, an African-American woman, as the Father; Jesus as [...]

Sarah discovered - and has gotten me hooked on - The Food Whore, a blog by a Seattle caterer and restaurant owner. If you’ve ever worked in a service industry, I think you’ll find this site hilarious. In particular, be sure to check out the “Tricks” and “The Restaurant” post categories.

There are people in Hyde Park who, apparently, think most of the neighborhood’s residents are hard of hearing. Every couple of days, somebody stops a car on one of the streets near Regents and starts hitting the horn - three long honks, once a minute or so, for about an hour and a half.
Non-freaking-stop.
Here’s [...]

As I have posted before, the allegedly broadband internet service provided by MDU at Regents Park (my apartment building) is mediocre, at best. It just went from mediocre to unacceptably awful.
First, the bandwidth has dropped off again - we’re back down to a level between dial-up and broadband speeds. So, we called to complain, expecting [...]

To my incredible shock and amazement, I am not failing out of law school because of my performance in Admiralty, last quarter. After muddling through one of the strangest exams I’ve ever seen, I fully expected the worst grade of my law school career, yet I actually did well. Not complaining!

After my last post, Sarah pointed out to me that she has only ever heard the phrase “another thing coming.” In fact, she thought I must have made a typo. I, on the other hand, had only ever heard “another think coming,” until about a year ago. My take was that it was a play [...]

You have to see it to believe it: Breitbart.tv » NBA Great Charles Barkley Calls Conservatives ‘Fake Christians’. I’m not sure if Barkley thinks that all conservatives claim to be Christian, or all Christians claim to be conservative, or what he’s talking about, at all. I really have no idea what he thinks the religious [...]