...Mark Halperin is still a massive hack. Sensationally misleading headline: Rev. Wright Will Be Nearby on Inauguration This implies that Wright will be climbing up the Capitol dome wearing a Spider-Man costume while shouting "goddamn America!" and hurling eggs at the president-elect's head. Not rea...

I'm back. 2008 included 9 great months for me, including two of the happiest days of my life. Last 3 months were a bit miserable, due to my precarious labour situation in the neo-liberal world. My private troubles coincided with the public issue of deepening global financial crisis. The election of ...

The other day we had a story about a woman who didn’t want to have sex with her husband, so she did what any rational person would do. She chomped down on her husband’s “willy,” as the British newspapers described it. That hurts. But so does this - and the thought sends shive...

I have been writing a long, thoughtful summation of 2009, but I've been really busy so it's taking a while. In the meantime, it's January, which means Celebrity Big Brother time, so I thought I'd provide you with links to my previous Big Brother and Tommy Sheridan posts. Tommy Sheridan is, of course...

Despite the urgent "breaking news" tone I'm hearing on MSNBC, a large $1.2 trillion federal budget deficit is good news right now. Not bad news. The government has to spend, or we're all screwed. That's the reality. History has proved the theory. The other thing is this: WASHINGTON — Congressional...

Six more years of Harry Reid as Majority (or Minority) Leader....

Some of the most profound blogging going on just now can be found over at David Wayne's Jollyblogger. As most of my readers probably know, David has cancer. Since a good friend of mine has cancer right now, and since I shouldn't be surprised to find someday that I myself or someone very close to me ...

Won't be any frozen pot pies during the dying days, we'll be making our own! I'm about to wrap up my week of apocalyptic musings and as much fun as it's been to write I feel I'm not providing that much of a service to my readers with all this "gloom and doom", and in th...

Fellow Mainer Joshua Otte has a great post about preaching the Gospel to your drooping heart. He's quoting the great John Owen here. Owen was one of the greatest teachers concerning the Gospel. He reminds us that it is the Gospel (and only the Gospel) that truly convicts our sin-sick hearts, and the...

I saw two documentaries on Tuesday about musical groups where the drama centers around deaths of their members. The first film, The Gits, were a punk band from Seattle whose lead singer, Mia Zapata (distantly related to that other Zapata), was raped and murdered just as the band was abou...