As everyone knows by now, Eliot Spitzer has apparently disgraced his office through his use of spendy hookers. He did this having made a name for himself as the Law, prosecuting sundry others, and showing No Mercy in his various rampages. Having made enemies in any number of … [Read more...]

Here is some good news, I guess, depending on how you look at it, but bear with me for a moment. I have long had trouble with people who try to encourage or alarm us with raw numbers alone. Raw numbers alone are often a very misleading part of the story. An example would be a … [Read more...]

A few days ago I stumbled across a documentary on the trials of movie makers in dealing with Hollywood's rating association, the one that supplies ratings for filums. I didn't watch it long, and what I did watch was kind of choppy because the raunchy clips required … [Read more...]

It looks as though Wheaton has had a speaker (Jim Wallis) who (according to this report) believes that homosexual rights issues are biblical "justice" issues, and who is in favor of civil unions for homosexuals. Let's work with this for a moment. The problem is not that Wheaton … [Read more...]

For obvious reasons, I won't link to it directly, but Drudge has informed us that Lindsey Lohan, the troubled young actress, has now reenacted a famous cheesecake photo shoot of Marilyn Monroe's. This is another great example of the fraudulent pretensions of feminism -- I think … [Read more...]

As just about everyone knows by now, Sen. Larry Craig was arrested in a public lavatory in June at the Minneapolis airport, and subsequently pled guilty to a misdemeanor -- for disorderly conduct. The news just hit the fan yesterday, and our Boise paper, The Idaho Statesman, ran … [Read more...]

One of the central sins of the Pharisees is that they had no sense of proportion. They did not know what sanctified what -- the gold the altar or the altar the gold? They did not know the difference between a beam in the eye or a mote in the eye. They did not think it odd to … [Read more...]

Given the nature of the case, these are not necessarily questions that someone might ever get to ask. A young man is coming to a father because he knows his own intentions, and he is inviting questions. He should be surprised if the young lady's father had no questions. He is … [Read more...]

A father in my congregation has asked me what sort of questions a father should be asking a young man who wants to court his daughter. It is one thing to affirm that fathers should be active in protecting their daughters, but it is quite another to figure out what sort of … [Read more...]