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March 2015

March 18, 2015

Sen. Inhofe’s perfectly legal corruption is worse than former-Rep. Schock’s law-breaking

As usual, the real scandal is not what is illegal, but what remains perfectly legal....

March 17, 2015

Je suis Alexamenos

Spring is coming, so if you need mulch, I know a guy. Here are a...

February 2015

February 01, 2015

Why the Republican Party cannot, as Michael Gerson suggests, ‘raise questions’ about climate change

Rather than the absurd claim that climate science is "the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on...

January 2015

January 05, 2015

Answer no one, let them guess

If you're 17 or older, then you've lived through the 10 Hottest Years Ever Recorded....

December 2014

December 22, 2014

Accept it that soon we’ll be drenched to the bone

If it's almost 2015, then that means within just four years -- during the current...

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...

September 2014

September 10, 2014

The mark of God on a stranger’s face

A national loyalty oath is creepy ... using "civility" to reinforce inequity is rude ......

July 2014

July 07, 2014

A bad year for the roses: Big boxes could be source of environmental data

Monitoring mosquito populations is a difficult, messy and expensive task for state environmental and health...

June 2014

June 03, 2014

In starry fields you wander there

A few things, including: What it means if "you don't see any gap between God...

May 2014

May 29, 2014

Scenes from the class war (5.29)

"Listen! The wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by...

May 22, 2014

I think it’s gonna change, much sooner than later

A few things: Kudos to the National Weather Service and to the bureaucrats who wrote...

May 10, 2014

I drive my car, it is a witness

Some weekend links: "And then the woman let out a cry. I cannot describe it."...

February 2014

February 19, 2014

A wise guy in the sky invites you to his guilty party

The perpetual catechizing by tribal gatekeepers; 2014 Pat Robertson denounces evil, socialist 2008 Pat Robertson;...

August 2013

August 14, 2013

Smart people saying smart things (8.14)

Richard Rohr explains his hermeneutic, which is about Jesus, not literalism; Kiese Laymon on "The...

August 13, 2013

The bad faith of climate-deniers cannot be denied

If ice and dirt are not capable of willfully acting in bad faith, then the...

May 2013

May 13, 2013

Mayo Clinic study: Rhino-horn extract killed Michael Jackson

Rhino-horn extract causes liver damage. Rhino-horn extract causes impotence. And baldness. Gout, flatulence, fatigue and...

April 2013

April 20, 2013

Senators clarify the terms of the disagreement

We can all get along. We can all agree that one side of this issue...

April 19, 2013

YouTube and the God of Job

Toward the end of the book of Job, the character of God starts off listing...

April 11, 2013

In the story of Noah, climate change is humans’ fault

It should be impossible to read the story of Noah's ark without very clearly understanding...

March 2013

March 08, 2013

Those elusive green shoots of green evangelicals

Fifteen years ago I believed that white evangelicals' antipathy to environmentalism was due to a...

March 07, 2013

Another ‘Noah’s Ark,’ but this one might be OK

The story of Noah is particularly tempting for a certain kind of illiteralist reader. The...

December 2012

December 14, 2012

Climate change is both a hoax and a sign of the End Times

"Bible prophecy scholars" insist that the Rapture and the End of the World are prophesied...

November 2012

November 27, 2012

Never side with the boss against the people who handle your food

It's one thing to ask someone to prepare you a chicken sandwich as an expression...

November 12, 2012

A belated happy Carl Sagan Day

"As scientists, many of us have had profound experiences of awe and reverence before the...

July 2012

July 16, 2012

Climate change denial as real estate ploy?

What is John Droz's end-game? I'm assuming he has one. I'm assuming here that Droz...

July 10, 2012

George Will is running out the clock on climate change

George Will is 71 years old. He's simply running out the clock. Yes, he's utterly...

July 03, 2012

Why it’s easy to rationalize the immoral position of not treating climate change as a moral issue

A couple of years back I explored the stubborn American denial of climate change as,...

June 2012

June 11, 2012

‘The Big Four’ — ‘the package deal of Christianity’

Jonathan Dudley in Broken Words: The Abuse of Science and Faith in American Politics: I...

May 2012

May 05, 2012

The ‘Big Four’ markers of the evangelical tribe

Not all of the Big Four carry equal weight. I've commended Jonathan Dudley's excellent book,...

February 2012

February 01, 2012

Climate-change denialism outraces parody

Last month, NASA reported that 2011 was the ninth-warmest year on record: The global average...