Every weekday morning, around 9:30am, most of the office gets up and walks down the block to our usual espresso joint for coffee and tea. We pass through several doors on the way out, and again on the way in, and being the mature, courteous men that we are, we’ll hold the doors open for [...]
Courtesy Among Men
February 27, 2008
Forget the Nanny State; I need a Nanny Church
August 26, 2006
Katherine Harris is running for Florida Senate. She was recently interviewed by the Florida Baptist Witness: If you are not electing Christians, tried and true, under public scrutiny and pressure, if you’re not electing Christians then in essence you are going to legislate sin. They can legislate sin. They can say that abortion is alright. [...]
Pat Roberston is a Doubting Thomas
August 6, 2006
Pat Robertson has finally seen the light about global warming. What changed his mind? Not the exacting research of thousands of scientists, no. He had to experience it first-hand. Now Thomas, one of the twelve, called the Twin, was not with them when Jesus came. So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the [...]
DOMA upheld in Washington State
July 26, 2006
Today the Washington State Supreme Court upheld the Defense of Marriage Act as constitutional. One should note, however, that they explicitly did not say whether or not it was a good idea — in fact, they hinted otherwise. But their job is not to make policy, only decide if policy is constitutional, and they sided [...]
Peggy Noonan against Science
July 20, 2006
Sometimes I wonder how apparently dumb people get to be in positions of such influence. Take, for example, this column by Peggy Noonan, an editor at the Wall Street Journal: During the past week’s heat wave–it hit 100 degrees in New York City Monday–I got thinking, again, of how sad and frustrating it is that [...]
Smackety Smack
July 19, 2006
I’ve been continuing to think about discipline the past few weeks. I feel like we’re coming to a threshold where catering to Ruby’s every whim will no longer be the best parenting philosophy. Not sure when, and it’ll probably be a gradual change, but it’s coming… I read T. Berry Brazelton’s Discipline: The Brazelton Way last [...]