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October 2018

October 05, 2018

LBCF, No. 204: ‘Love, Apocalypse Style’

Roger Ebert noted that writing two characters who are meant for each other is the...

October 01, 2018

Parallel crimes

That coincidence of timing was stunning in part because the details of the 2006 crime...

September 2018

September 24, 2018

Merrick Garland

Merrick Garland. Merrick Garland. Merrick Garland. Merrick Garland. Merrick Garland. Merrick Garland. Merrick Garland. Merrick...

September 24, 2018

‘No other institution has worked harder …’

Wherein we revisit one newspaper article; one grand jury report; and two brazenly dishonest letters...

September 21, 2018

Smart people saying smart things (9.21.18)

Smart reads from Dahlia Lithwick, Jamelle Bouie, Adele M. Stan, Linda Kay Klein, and Steve...

September 21, 2018

LBCF, No. 203: ‘Bruce’s Big Plan’

Bruce Barnes knows what the future holds. He has read the prophecies, and so he...

September 16, 2018

Sunday favorites

"Thus I will spend my wrath upon the wall, and upon those who have smeared...

September 14, 2018

LBCF, No. 202: ‘Stoppage time’

By outlining his prediction and prophecy timeline in such detail, LaHaye may have, unwittingly, ensured that it...

September 13, 2018

Smart people saying smart things (9.13.18)

Smart things from Kristin Du Mez, Jemar Tisby, Nicholas Wolterstorff, Adam Serwer, and Toni Bond...

September 07, 2018

LBCF, No. 201: ‘By the rivers of Babylon’

The actual exile of the people of Judah was really, in Tim LaHaye's view, just...

September 02, 2018

Sunday favorites

"Do not put your trust in princes. ... The Lord watches over the strangers; he upholds the...

August 2018

August 31, 2018

LBCF, No. 200: ‘Enough with Chapter 1, already’

We're supposed to think it unfair that Verna would say that Buck has been "insubordinate...

August 28, 2018

‘Catch and kill’ seems awfully close to simple blackmail

There seems to be a very fine line between "catch and kill" and simple blackmail....

August 26, 2018

Sunday favorites

"And he must not acquire many wives for himself, or else his heart will turn...

August 23, 2018

LBCF, No. 199: ‘Not funny’

"Let us not become conceited," the Apostle Paul writes, "provoking and envying each other." If...

August 20, 2018

Love is a burning thing …

I'm enjoying the new "Cloak and Dagger" series, even though it doesn't require super-powers to...

August 17, 2018

LBCF, No. 198: ‘No shame’

Rayford here is meant to be seen as a role model, as the ideal example...

August 14, 2018

Nothing’s right, it’s torn

Like Mets pitcher Seth Lugo, my wife managed to avoid surgery for tendinitis last year...

August 14, 2018

Jesus and his lawyer are coming back

Steve West is an anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist who thinks "Jewish cabals" are "harvesting baby parts"...

August 12, 2018

Sunday favorites

"You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor. You shall take no bribe, for...

August 10, 2018

LBCF, No.197: ‘Fantasy sequence’

This is four vile pages packed with undiluted, jubilant misogyny. This is Part 2 of...

August 07, 2018

Stories with heroes and stories without them

There are no heroes working for CoreCivic, the incarceration-for-profit company that trades in human misery...

August 03, 2018

LBCF, No. 196: ‘The militant Verna’

We don't have the time, expertise or equipment to plumb the full depths of LaHaye...

August 02, 2018

This is a fundraising post

I try to avoid doing this unless/until I need to but, well, I need to....

August 02, 2018

Smart people saying smart things (8.2.18)

Smarts from Rebecca Solnit, Stephen Kantrowitz, Liz Holtzman, and Terese Marie Mailhot. Plus, because it...

July 2018

July 29, 2018

Sunday favorites

"Folly can be overcome, not by instruction, but only by an act of liberation; and...

July 27, 2018

LBCF, No. 195: ‘A new car!’

If you're shooting a movie, you're going to have to show us the car. It will thus...

July 24, 2018

Defensive pretend patriotism is bad for sports and bad for veterans

Deliberately blurring the lines between pro-military and pro-country is straight-up banana republic dictator nonsense. That's...

July 20, 2018

LBCF, No. 194: ‘Sign o’ the times’

Pestering your co-workers until every interaction is fraught with an awkward tension is presented here...

July 13, 2018

LBCF, No. 193: ‘Inaction heroes’

LaHaye and Jenkins' version of life, mission and ministry is neither difficult nor adventurous. It's...

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