Leave out the media’s need to stretch out excitement (and therefore viewer engagement) to the maximum point of endurance. Leave out their ratings-driven need to keep the presidential contest as much of “a game” as they can for as long as they can. For example, if one Super Bowl team is 58 points ahead in …
A Great Big Outbreak of Lucidity
H.L. Mencken once defined democracy as the art and science of running the zoo from the monkey house. Perhaps it need not be that way. There was good news this morning from Wisconsin. The recall elections there were some union push-back, in an attempt to recapture the state senate. If they were successful in that …
Our Peter Principle President
Coleman Young was the first black mayor of Detroit and, while it was hailed as a milestone at the time, if we look at how Detroit is doing today — you know, as in, being a reasonable place to move to — we should conclude that something went seriously off the rails. Maynard Jackson became …
Ye Solons of the Earth
I can’t let the Israel imbroglio, caused by Obama’s 1967 comments, pass without making just a quick comment. The situation between Israel and the Palestinians is intractable, meaning by this that there is no political solution. Apart from a supernatural intervention that topples all the idols, the inevitable consequence will be war. The more people …
Seven Thoughts on the Assassination of Bin Laden
1. Assassination is not necessarily an ungodly tactic. Ehud was a righteous judge in Israel, and he was used by the Lord in the assassination of Eglon (Judg. 3:21). It is not to be condemned out of hand. 2. The biblical response to this kind of thing is not uniform. There is a sense in …
Germany Instead
One of the ways we can tell how politicized the world has gotten is that it is difficult to say anything about one specific thing without weighing in on everything else in the world. If you offer an opinion, everyone wants to know how this opinion supports or does not support the agenda of the …
Do Your Soul Some Good
I don’t have an awful lot to say about the death of Osama bin Laden. He was a very bad man, and we should be glad that he is now in a place where no injustice will ever come. Unjust men can come there, as bin Laden just did, but no injustice ever will. The …
Hold Our Tummies and Laugh for a While
Thus far, I have enjoyed the presence of Donald Trump on the political stage. The entertainment value is high. He started right in on the birther thing, and within weeks, sure enough, remember the art of the deal, out comes the long form of Obama’s birth certificate. Huh. Wonder how that happened. My initial theory …
A Spavined Cow With the Staggers
As I write this, it appears that my home state of Idaho may be the first state to nullify Obamacare. From the initial pinching of oneself to determine if one is having too much of a happy dream, to the realization that such an action would in fact be momentous, an obvious thing to do …
What the Broken Pustules Want
Lurking just beneath the surface of every reform movement to change the world is the innate and depraved human lust to run the world. And since this is actually the fundamental thing about our sorry planet that needs to be reformed (and can only be reformed by the Holy Spirit), we find that the medicines …