Month: April 2015

Say What?

Let’s play a game. You tell me how many ways the following is wrong and why. On Tuesday’s edition of the Family Research Council’s “Washington Watch” program, Religious Right activist and rabbi Daniel Lapin repeated his...

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Eugenicists’ New Masks

WaPo: New brain science shows poor kids have smaller brains than affluent kids Neuroscientists who studied the brain scans of nearly 1,100 children and young adults nationwide from ages 3 to 20 found that the surface area of the...

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Tell Us Something We Don’t Know, Linc

For those of us who are going through the process of trying to reconcile ourselves to the “inevitability” of a Clinton family takeover of the Democratic Party, it seems that Lincoln Chafee wants to make the process...

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Tennessee House Votes to Make Bible Official

Below is my class picture from 1981. As you can see, it was a diverse bunch. I can’t say with any precision at this late date, but I estimate that the “white” portion of this class was about half Jewish, the...

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Casual Observation

I wonder if Jon Stewart just might un-retire if Rafael Cruz becomes the First Big Daddy of the Ted Cruz administration. I’m sure the temptation would be hard to resist.

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