This insistence on the centrality of politics is distressing — and not very democratic. You know, everything hinges on this election, everything hinges on politics: our future, our children, our [...]
A few weeks back I mentioned my search for Hayek's The Road to Serfdom at a local Barnes and Noble. It really whetted my appetite for the book and so I ordered it (not from B&N). I only just began reading yesterday and most of' [...] The Walker Art Center built a miniature golf course on the grave of the old Guthrie, but it’s a socially-conscious course; half of the holes preached recycling, or counseled wise use of water. The best one were just whimsical. You’re just relieved sometimes when art isn’t trying to tamp a [...]
In the previous comment section the Nightwriter mentions The Two Ronnies. I'm not familiar with them, but I had a right good laugh over this bit.
Faith and I went to Mama Mia this weekend and I can report that it is, without a doubt, one of the movies of this summer! I was enthralled by this intricately woven morality play, mesmerized by the all-Abba soundtrack, and overcome by Pierce Brosnan's chest [...] He that can reconcile Blows and Reverence, may, for ought I know, deserve for his pains, a civil respectful cudgeling where-ever he can meet with it.Man, Locke didn't pull any punches! Er... cudgels? [...]
The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) lost more than 57,000 members last year, church leaders said in late June... [...]
Thirty-six-year-old Katherine Gunther of Lebanon, Ind., was performing "a Wiccan good luck ceremony" that "involves the use of candles, incense and driving swords into the ground during the full moon," the Associated Press reports, when [...]
Earlier this month I mentioned that I had started building a library of foundational documents of American liberty. I'm nearing the end of John Locke's The Two Treatises of Government and it has been tough reading. I've discovered that in order to understand I need to [...] 
Captain Ed writes a nice piece on Barack Obama's decision to speak in Berlin and his choice of venue. Senator Obama is getting a lot of attention lately for gaffes and poor decision making. The intricacies of this one might elude most of us, but [...] Obama is a three-year senator without a single important legislative achievement to his name, a [...]
All winter long people whine.
"Brrr, it's so cold all the time."
"Humbug!" I shout,
"You ungrateful lout.
It's better than endless sunshine."
If August and September are kind and the Twins make it to the World Series this year (I suppose October would have to be kind too), and if this Twins team is able to follow in the footsteps of teams of yore, which is to [...] 98% of American historians have already said [George W. Bush] will be remembered as THE WORST PRESIDENT EVER.I ran across this little gem in a comment section and I almost fell out of my chair. Love him or hate him, any reasonable sane person will realize that 98% of [...]
Drilling for more domestic oil is all well and good, but there are other reasons that the price of gas is so high: a shortage of refineries, lack of pipelines to handle increased drilling, increased demand elsewhere in the world which we [...]
I finished another Dorothy Sayers mystery last night. I stumbled across her Lord Wimsey mysteries at the monastery bookstore a few months back. I was in the midst of loads of other stuff, only some of which was comprehensible (the rest was ontologically dense), and [...] We know what kind [...]
I haven't been following the news very closely these past couple of weeks, but eventually the words "flood" and "Iowa" penetrated my preoccupied skull. I googled for a few minutes and found a couple of photos from Burlington, the town where [...] 
On Monday I noted that I wasn't impressed by politicians idealizing youth. I was happy to run across an article by Dennis Prager in which he explains far more eloquently than me that the mass involvement of youth in politics is rarely a good [...] 
On his campaign plane, Obama told reporters that Osama bin Laden is still at large in part because President Bush's strategy toward fighting terror has not succeeded.Senator Obama, I am curious whether you can tell me how many terrorist attacks there have been on American [...]
My Dad
My dad is a patient man
Not prone to anger.
Careful not to lurch to and fro
Nor [...]
Man, have I ever got timing. About five minutes before hopping on my bike to head from Minneapolis to Roseville (about 10 miles), it started pouring. In spite of the rain it was a pretty fun bike ride; it's an easy thing to enjoy once you [...] The truth is inseparable [...]
A little girl asked her father, 'How did the human race appear?' The father answered, 'God made Adam and Eve and they had children and so was all mankind made.'
Two days later the girl [...]
Ol' Petey went to work one day[...]
A-hopin' for some dough.
He did as little as he could;
His work was kinda slow.
The day for gittin' paychecks came
And Petey's wasn't there.
"Sorry Pete," his boss did say
"But I think it's only fair."
When biking on my bike one day
I hear a big loud crash.
I turned my head to see the source
But just saw Graham Nash.
"What?, not David Crosby?"
I said with just a wink.
"Hey now, we're all boomers here!
"Have you seen my stash?"
Thinking [...]
I got back from work this afternoon to find a message from Brad Carlson. I immediately called back, "You still got those tickets for the Twins game?" And shortly thereafter we were walking into a festive Metrodome for the tilt against the Texas Rangers. We [...] There comes a time[...]
In every year
When class gets done
And monks all cheer.
I'm glad to say
That time has come,
No more readin'
It's time for Dumb.
I don?t think she should be fired, but [...]
I noted on Monday that the media is/will be in the bag for Obama. One of the manifestations of this implicit preference is double standards. Jennifer Rubin points to a doozy. It seems Obama has been using some awfully sexist language on the campaign [...]
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