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October 2007

October 08, 2007

Oral Roberts is going down

"Scandal brewing at Oral Roberts U." is the AP headline, but that seems like an...

October 01, 2007

We could send letters

I haven't written much about the demonstrations in Myanmar because there didn't seem like much...

October 01, 2007

Bad habits

Congress, like many state legislatures, seems to think it has found a magic money source...

September 2007

September 30, 2007

The kids are alright

Amanda Marcotte introduces us to a new hero: Hannah Lindquist, 14, a freshman at Tri-Valley...

September 30, 2007

Wait’ll next year

If you lose 12 out of your last 17 games, you don't deserve to keep...

September 29, 2007

Lying liars

Teresa Nielsen Hayden has a long post about "Lying in the name of God, surveying...

September 25, 2007

Your lying eyes

See, this really isn't that complicated. If you told me your life story and I...

September 24, 2007

The Question and The Column

It happens every spring. And every summer, fall and winter. Some black athlete accidentally gives...

September 18, 2007

Hijack this thread

When I worked in the bookstore, we played this long-running game with book titles. The...

September 17, 2007

O.J.!

O.J.! O.J.! O.J.! O.J.! O.J.! O.J.! ... Hey, wait, isn't there a war going on?...

September 06, 2007

This is the nitty gritty

Finally getting around to reading some of those articles that have been lying around for...

September 02, 2007

Nothing is cool

Huzzah! * * * * * * * * * Last week, Little Steven read...

August 2007

August 14, 2007

Dark places

Jane Mayer's meticulously researched New Yorker report, "The Black Sites: A rare look inside the...

August 13, 2007

Cossacks again

"Man is born free," Rousseau said, "but everywhere he is in chains." I'm down with...

August 13, 2007

Cossacks and Prairie Muffins

If you believe that every human being has the right to self determination, then how...

August 09, 2007

The sin of despair

I suppose I should start with what it is not. The Catholic Encyclopedia entry on...

August 08, 2007

Inspection notices

The collapse of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis seems to have prompted a wave of...

August 07, 2007

Pessimistic hope

Bill McKibben has been warning us about climate change for nearly as long as Al...

August 02, 2007

No margin for error

Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., was interviewed on NPR's Morning Edition on Wednesday. The interview was...

August 02, 2007

Bridges

Here's the Star Tribune coverage of the collapse of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis, where...

July 2007

July 31, 2007

Backyard bombardier

* Brush with infamy: Turns out disgraced former NBA referee Tim Donaghy went to high...

July 30, 2007

Pennhurst & subsidiarity

I had a short-term job some years ago working at a home for dual-diagnosis adults....

July 20, 2007

Coming soon …

And like a thief in the night, in the twinkling of an eye, the End...

July 18, 2007

Hummin’ a lunar tune

Here, for the record, is my one and only Deathly Hallows prediction: Draco Malfoy will...

July 16, 2007

Alternate endings

Years ago I was doing Bad Dinner Theater. The "play," which was really just an...

July 11, 2007

You’re not the pope of me

I suppose I'm supposed to be worried or aggrieved or something in response to yesterday's...

July 10, 2007

Thank you

Every year, on their wedding anniversary, my friend Allen Johnson gives his wife a giant...

July 07, 2007

And such small portions

The gizmo that calculated this (via) informs me that: This rating was determined based on...

July 06, 2007

Dwight & dog whistles

Years before Jeff Foxworthy became a millionaire from his "you might be a redneck" schtick,...

July 05, 2007

Religious tests

[NOTE: Much of this post is based on an Emily Litella-ish misreading, in which I...