March 1, 2009

The St. Louis Tea Party

Residents of my beloved St. Louis generally are not a protesting lot.  If we had a basketball team, our winning the NBA title would result in nothing more dramatic than a bit of a mess left along the streets after the big game.  Protesting ...

November 14, 2008

Dispatch From Deep Within 'The Youth Vote'

One of my occasional self-imposed acts of civil duty is to work as an election judge.  There is nothing very sophisticated about it.  Typically, it is a test of one's ability to cope with tedium. Occasionally they get exciting, if you ...

October 3, 2008

A Review of Bill Maher's Religulous

I saw Bill Maher's Religulous with a fellow Christian who occasionally offers to get me into press screenings.  My first instinct was to take a pass, I prefer my faith to be mocked and derided in the style of Monty Python.  F...

June 3, 2007

Rudy Giuliani and the SOB Factor

One of the chronic problems with the Bush Administration is that the President is insufficiently vindictive to deal with the enemies of this republic, both foreign and domestic. President Bush is often nicer to his enemies than he is to his frie...

August 2, 2006

Mel Gibson's Self-Immolation

'For in my inner being I delight in God's law; but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members.' — Romans 7:22—23 I am re...

July 15, 2006

Get Real on Gasoline Prices

A new oil shock is underway.  Turmoil in the Middle East is inevitably going to result in higher prices at the pump.  On my morning bike ride, gas was 2.85 a gallon.  On the way home, there were signs offering gas for 3.09, an increase...

March 23, 2005

The Schiavo case and moral inquiry

The case of Terri Schaivo uncorks a nettlesome series of moral propositions every bit as difficult as some theoretical scenario crafted by a philosophy professor to taunt his freshmen.  It pits a spouse's responsibility against a parent's love....

March 20, 2005

Press conference of my dreams

In a press conference with President Bush the other day, several reporters put on display their nettlesome proclivities.  The President is a classy man and did not respond to the nitwittery as it bloomed, but I can always dream about what I...

February 28, 2005

Academy Awards

Every year, my friend Jim has an Oscar party.  It consists of a bunch of friends getting together, chipping in for pizza, and making commentary, conversation and wisecracks at the global spectacle that is the Academy Awards.  Part of the fu...

January 20, 2005

In my dreams

[The following is a fantasy response from Condolezza Rice, nominee for Secretary of State, to Barbara Boxer (D—Outer Space ).а We join the response in progress.] SEN. LUGAR: ... you ought to have the right to respond. Then, at that point, we're...