As I publish this, my blog post, “Ranking the Presidents: Fun for the Whole Blogosphere,” has received 27 comments. That’s cool. As I pointed out, this a very democratic game. HARD MATH My biggest lesson was that I was encouraged, repeatedly, to defy the laws of mathematics. I was ...

Recently, C-SPAN released the latest in a tradition of historian rankings of the Presidents. The trouble with these surveys is, 1. Being a War President is worth tremendous bonus points. 2. Being ambitious and attempting to launch lots of government programs makes you a great President. 3. Being qui...

How does one manage to interpret scripture in a scientific world? In the comments following my 12/5/07 blog post, “Two Books Approach to Christianity,” an astute commenter, Jarred, referenced the Three-Legged Stool and the Wesleyan Quadrilateral. I replied at the time that at some point ...

In reading the comments to my recent post, “If God does not exist, then everything is permitted?” I felt that many of the questions I was being asked were addressed in the very piece the commenters has just finished reading. I love getting comments, so in defense of these commenters the ...

Remember, the guy writing this blog post is an Evangelical… It’s only February, but our colleague Ed Brayton might’ve written his most important “cultural” blog post of the year on his big blog. A very thorough Gallup Poll (350,000 Americans surveyed) shows what percent...

Not everyone thought the Messiah had arrived. The markets didn’t make Obama feel welcome. DJIA 7949.09 -332.13 NASDAQ 1440.86 -88.47 S&P 500 805.22 -44.9 And the dollar was down against the Yen as well. Oh, and get this: I called my home-schooled kids into the room to watch the swearing-in, a...

I would like to join the discussion about “the children” with some hypothetical, make you think a bit, material. My co-blogger James Hanley has already provided a cogent analysis on the challenge of when to intervene. But the following quotes inspired me to write this post: D.A. Ridgely ...

Jason Kuznicki makes a compelling case for atheists, like him, who are purposely excluded from our little loyalty oath to a piece of cloth, and the un-Constitutional, bloated government it represents. His reasoning is sound. And like him, I’ll take any objection to it. But I understand how ...

The Oscar Grant saga continues. The piece that follows comes from DissidentVoice.org. I know little to nothing about the source, and I’m not sure that everything that follows is factually accurate. Some of the language races further than the evidence leads. Yet I think there’s sufficient...

The Oscar Grant story again… Did Officer Mehserle mean to grab his Taser and pull his .40 caliber handgun instead? And if so, what does that mean? The Toronto Star provides this helpful graphic (below the fold). Amateur video posted on Reddit.com shows officer holding his head after a shot was...