When I began to write this post, I looked for a dozen passages in the Scriptures that Christians in the West largely ignored in practice, despite mentally assenting to the truths contained therein. But what scared me as I delved into this was that far too many passages of the Scriptures are simply i...

"Socially, I'd like people to understand that there is a difference between what is right and what is just... Remember, slavery was considered legal at one point. I consider the world’s current modus operandi a modern slave system. I intend to challenge it in any way I can." Legal philosophy from ...

One day Dale Lyle got a speeding ticket in the mail issued by one of those automatic ticketing cameras. It claimed he was doing 98MPH in his 14-year old Honda Civic, a car he insisted could only do 85MPH max on a downhill slope with a tailwind. So what did he do? He did what any badass would do -- h...

I’ve been reading Padraig O’Malley’s Shades of Difference. It uses the life of Mac Maharaj, who according to Nelson Mandela, “ran the ANC’s underground in South Africa,� as a lens through which to discuss the anti-apartheid struggle. O’Malley introduces each chapter to set the historic...

Remember the New Jersey man who tried to pay his traffic ticket with pennies? Well, in a courageous display of one-upmanship, here’s what one British guy did: he paid his parking ticket with a check written on a toilet paper! It was a very British protest - cocking a snook at overbearing autho...

Shit Piss Fuck Cunt Cocksucker Mothterfucker Tits An amazingly simple legacy of free speech, civil disobedience, philosophy of language and culture criticism all wrapped up in the guise of stand up comedy. New York City to me has rarely been to me the voice of Woody Allen or Seinfeld. New York City ...

Please forward far and wide. And feel free to respond at maslauskas84@gmail.com. -Brendan Maslauskas Dunn Student Power and the Sit-in at Evergreen May 30th marked the 10th day of the sit-in of Evergreen State College administrator Art Costantino's hallway. Students are demanding the immediate r...

Last night at Bible Study we moved into 1 Peter 3.  It contains one of those passages that drives feminists and egalitarians mad.  That isn’t what I want to focus on right now though.  Peter brings up Sarah as an example of a godly woman of old whose hope in God resulted in the inner beauty...

OXFORD, Ohio (ZP) – There he was, this marvelous young writer, this future ringmaster of the American Literary circus, sitting on the other side of the table, chatting away with his siblings about everything but his writing. No writer, you see, wants to discuss writing or literature after a readin...

Yesterday, in response to one of our articles about another secret Bush White House memo indicating purposeful violation of federal law and the Constitution in order to spy against Americans, one of our readers challenged us. What are we going to do but complain? Complaint, of course, is doing somet...