Not with a whimper but with a meteorite
So that's what earth's being destroyed by a meteorite would look like....
A Tale of Two Cities
News from Baghdad to Washington and back, in quotes.
On Stewart, and the News
An interesting twist in the ongoing discussion of serious comedy and the news.
Clio, you surprising muse
Much ado about, er, something.
The Gospel of Judas?
After 1,700 years, a gospel is un-suppressed.
Cartoons that aren't funny
Do cartoon representations require non-serious, non-respectful interpretations?
Thanks, Fishies, for the Ears
Knowledge marches on.
Abe Lincoln on the War Power
Wherein the not-yet-former president muses on presidents as not-kings.
Happy Bill of Rights Day
MR. GERRY said it would read better if it was no religious doctrine shall be established by law. MR. SHERMAN thought the amendment altogether unnecessary, inasmuch as Congress had 'no authority whatever delegated to them by the Constitution to make religious establishments; he would, therefore, move to have it struck out.'
With a Bobolink for a Chorister
When faith isn't religiously correct.
A Puritan Christmas
Time was, Christmas in America actually was a crime.
We Are Devo
"God made man / But he used the monkey to do it."
Science, Theology and the Ontological Quest
What happens when you close your mind to science?
Better Than The West Wing
The real political drama isn't on NBC.
Plamegate: A Watergate Criminal's View
A unique perspective into criminality in the White House.
Again, Crito, may we do evil?
Crito: Surely not, Socrates.
How complex is "too complex"?
Is that a null comparative in your pocket?
Who Will The President Pardon?
U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald's grand jury is set to expire October 28. Many people are expecting indictments.
Harriet Miers, President Bush and Federalist No. 76
"He would be both ashamed and afraid to bring forward, for the most distinguished or lucrative stations, candidates who had no other merit than that of coming from the same State to which he particularly belonged, or of being in some way or other personally allied to him, or of possessing the necessary insignificance and pliancy to render them the obsequious instruments of his pleasure."
This Just In: Karen Hughes Doesn't Know U.S. Constitution
Karen Hughes is President Bush's envoy for "public diplomacy," selling the U.S. to the rest of the world. Too bad she hasn't read the Constitution.
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