Frozen Toothpaste

David Callahan’s The Moral Center can be a difficult book. Not because it’s exceptionally intellectual, partisan, or long. It’s difficult primarily because it emphasizes ways in which the American political landscape has subverted actual reason by favoring what is easy and appears straightforward. And by showing the naked irrationality of the policies of both political […]

It’s easy to become a tad too concerned with looking intelligent and serious and forget to have fun. So today on “Other People’s Words,” a heroic journey told using some utter nonsense, Lewis Carrol’s famous “Jabberwocky.”
‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And […]

I thought of writing this piece a number of times, but always decided against it. It always did, and still does, seem like an interesting idea that would never get much traction. But, I rather like sharing outlandish ideas (see last Thursday), so I’ve decided to give this one a go.
I think the claim […]

Yesterday, as you’re no doubt aware, was the sixth anniversary of the terrorist attacks that made America notice radical Islam. If our President had been one for rhetorical flourishes, he may have reminded us that it was a day “that will live in infamy.”
If there is another day where America’s world changed, the only 20th […]

Around here, the last few days have been rather gray. You know the type. Where it doesn’t get much about 58 degrees Fahrenheit and you never actually see the sun, though it’s light shows through with varying degrees of success.
And though some may find days when the sky only varies between shades of dull gray […]