Introduction: The time has once more arose, as the fellow once said, to have a little thoughtful interaction with the concept of kinism. What I want to do here is have a little give and take ...
Kin, Skin, & Sin
Brain Glitch and Correction
Important correction: In a couple of responses to the Meet the Press segment, I responded to a comment by Brandy Sullivan on how our candidates were roundly defeated in the last couple of city council elections. In effect, I responded by saying that we didn’t have any candidates running, and so there. But I was …
A Realistic Solution
A Different Kind of Daddy Issue
Dear Darla, So I take it that things are getting a mite serious over there. Good for you. I trust you are smiling at him brightly? That apparently being the case, let me compare and contrast two ...
Letters on Bait, Baggage, Books and More
Letter to the Editor: Thank you for the reminder to "Not Take the Bait". This, of course, is wise advice. I worry that some numbskull will go off half-cocked and do something really stupid. ...
A Nest of Asian Murder Hornets Mistaken for a Piñata
Whenever something like this Meet the Press thing happens, all kinds of thoughts crowd into my head unbidden. And while one must always keep in mind that trenchant observation of Wodehouse, which is that some minds are like the soup in a bad restaurant, better left unstirred, it remains the case that other things simply …
Life After Roe
For those in the local Moscow area, I wanted to remind you of the Life After Roe event, which is this Friday at 7:00 pm at the UI Pitman Center. The event is free, but please register in advance, which you can do via the QR code on the flyer or at this link here. …
NBC News Lends a Hand
Judging from my Twitter feed, many of you saw the segment on Moscow and Christ Church that Meet the Press did. As I have said elsewhere, I am grateful that it was not a hit piece—they let both sides talk, in other words. It was even-handed in that way. At the same time, it was …
Sounds Legit
Clear Preferences
“The message of ‘tax-supported anything but Christianity’ comes through loud and clear.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 140