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December 2014

December 21, 2014

‘Well done, everyone. We’re halfway out of the dark.’

"On every world, wherever people are, in the deepest part of the winter, at the...

December 21, 2014

Paul’s Nativity, Linus, and what Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown

"Sure, Charlie Brown. I can tell you what Christmas is all about. Lights, please. 'Let...

December 21, 2014

Sunday favorites

"Do not be afraid; for see — I am bringing you good news of great...

December 19, 2014

Hallelujah everybody say ‘Cheese’: Christmas is still affordable (The Robert Earl Keen Christmas Price Index for 2014)

Nobody has $116,000 lying around to buy their true love 12 days of weirdly archaic...

December 19, 2014

Left Behind Classic Fridays, No. 12: ‘The Naked Truth’

If you saw a dozen people instantaneously vanish, leaving only a pile of clothing where...

December 17, 2014

U.S. policy toward Cuba, a brief review

1960: U.S. isolates Cuba in an attempt to force reform. Policy fails. 1961: U.S. isolates...

December 17, 2014

Smart people saying smart things (12.17)

Kathryn Schulz on the Mann Gulph wildfire and so very much more; Ezra Klein on...

December 15, 2014

Elvis did it better

Some Monday morning linkage, including: lying about abortion is linked to a higher risk of...

December 14, 2014

Sunday favorites

"Chains shall he break, for the slave is our brother / And in his name...

December 13, 2014

Smart people saying smart things (12.13.14)

Randi Harper on online abuse; Chris Rock on the whiteness of Hollywood; Damaris Zehner on...

December 13, 2014

They don’t make Republicans like that anymore

Here's a terrific bit of American history from Glenn Branch. In the February 1916 issue...

December 12, 2014

Two reasons we know Frosty the Snowman was white

"He led them down the streets of town, right to the traffic cop / And...

December 12, 2014

Holding the hand that had fired a gun at his heart

Some links for your Friday evening, including: Nothing says Christmas like bullying the Jews; the...

December 12, 2014

Left Behind Classic Fridays, No. 11: ‘Not creepy enough’

The apocalypse described in Stephen King's 'The Stand' is genuinely frightening. 'Left Behind' is not....

December 11, 2014

First they got you thinking you’re a prophet

Some Thursday linkery, including: The only difference between Young Life and Abercrombie & Fitch; Josef's...

December 09, 2014

Sen. John McCain on the failure and disgrace of American torture

"But in the end, torture’s failure to serve its intended purpose isn’t the main reason...

December 08, 2014

Where do you go when you finish broken-hearted?

Monday Night Linkball, including: Atheist displays in Rayford Steele's backyard; the prophets were not fortune-tellers;...

December 07, 2014

Sunday favorites

"We wait for new heavens and a new earth, where justice is at home."

December 06, 2014

Left Behind Classic Fridays, No. 10: ‘The Hypothetical Bus’

Don't put off re-reading this 2003 post on how "Left Behind" substitutes old-fashioned hellfire &...

December 05, 2014

White evangelical biblicism grew up defending slavery. That’s what it’s for.

We like to tell ourselves that "Amazing Grace" hymn-writer John Newton became an abolitionist because...

December 02, 2014

‘Last night there were skinheads on my lawn’

Telephone Free Landslide Linkery, including: Wile E. Coyote, David Bowie, the Sexiest Man Alive, biathletes,...

December 01, 2014

It’s a Marvel comic book, Saturday matinee fairy tale, boy

Some Monday morning linkage, including: Why the burning of a black church isn't "news;" Canadian...

November 2014

November 30, 2014

Celebrating the feast day of Mark Twain

Today we meditate on awful thoughts and awful words and we take up wickedness again....

November 30, 2014

Sunday favorites

"What do mortals get from all the toil and strain with which they toil under...

November 28, 2014

And you’ll only drink milk from a Christian cow

Some links for Buy Nothing Day, including: another bit of false prophecy from Tim LaHaye;...

November 28, 2014

Happy Thanksgiving

It's been a brain-frying, blog-neglecting couple of days here what with the snow, the "Black...

November 23, 2014

Sunday favorites

"Do not rob the poor because they are poor, or crush the afflicted at the...

November 21, 2014

Smart people saying smart things (11.21)

Questions From a Ewe has a request for Cardinal Sean O'Malley; Eliel Cruz and Darnell...

November 21, 2014

Left Behind Classic Fridays, No. 9: ‘Do Panic’

"Rayford runs into Hattie Durham. She's still 'drop dead gorgeous,' but in a hysterically crying,...

November 20, 2014

Proverbs and fart jokes and other ancient wisdom literature

You have to read Proverbs with the other biblical "wisdom" books in mind. It's part...