I keep hearing both these descriptions of the incident with Flight 1549, as though they’re both compatible plausible explanations of what happened.
I suggest either Sullenberger was a hero OR it was a miracle: not both.
A miracle means God intervened to ensure that those innocent people lived. Quite why he would do that while so many [...]
“Hero Pilot” or “Miracle On The Hudson”?
A sample argument from the marijuana debate
I love the debate over marijuana. Literally, love it. It’s fun to be right. And it’s fun to talk with people that haven’t thought that hard about it, because you can see the cogs turning in their brains when you start to point out some fairly obvious truths, like the ones below.
One of the most [...]
Scary Jesus
The highly anticipated sequel to Chocolate Jesus.
From the archive: Response to Naomi Wolf
Original published on November 8th, 2005 at 9:52am.
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Dear Naomi
In response to your article in the Guardian – “We Americans are like recovering addicts after a four-year bender” – I’d like to point out a few things I believe you got wrong.
You start by saying that George Bush has been “until recently eerily untouchable.” Funny, I [...]
Howard gets gravestone from Secret Santa
It’s a popular way to exchange holiday gifts at work: Secret Santa.
Snow in Las Vegas!
We’re used to warm, dry and sunny weather here in the southwestern U.S. all winter.
Reporter throws shoes at Bush, demands freedom
Ah, the irony.
BBC threats supported by lies
You know the assholes who insist on threatening you with a jail term unless you pay for the BBC are desperate when their sordid intimidating letters are chock-full of faked information.
“Shitload of Math Due Monday”
One of the biggest news stories of the past week:
OLD BRIDGE, NJ
I can’t show you the rest of this album cover
Or at least I’m not supposed to. This is the cover of The Scorpions’ album, Virgin Killer, released over 30 years ago, and it’s become the focus of a censorship issue because, clearly, it depicts a minor in a state of undress and falls foul of child pornography laws. It’s gone so far [...]
Busy weekend
My wife Melissa is a photographer. She does weddings, portraits, fashion, events, that sort of thing. The weddings she does in a photojournalist-style; fly-on-the-wall and candid, as it were. So I just spent a marathon weekend with her building her new website, which kicks ass; visit HERE and click on weddings. [...]
Gay marriage doesn’t go far enough, says Robert Epstein, and he’s right!
Robert Epstein, a visiting scholar at UC San Diego, has an opinion piece in this morning’s Los Angeles Times wherein he argues against gay marriage in favor of something much bigger. So, what gives?
There is no convincing evidence — absolutely none — that … various forms of romantic partnership do anyone, or any society, [...]
Comment from John Perez
A commenter on my post about the appointment of Janet Napolitano to the Obama administration, John Perez, says:
I don
Fagan agrees
Fr Sean Fagan is a Catholic theologian who’s written some great things on the subject of sexuality and theology in his new book What Happened to Sin? Crawley quotes from the book extensively here. I bring this up because I’m interested to note, having read the excerpts, that Fagan would surely agree largely [...]
Sums it up
By Ji Lee in Portfolio.com.
This man is an arrogant ignoramus
His name is Richard Daley, mayor of the city of Chicago, Illinois.
Daley is a dunderhead, but he knows how the U.S. Constitution works: it was written by the framers and is interpreted by the courts, the highest of which is the U.S. Supreme Court. He knows that if the Supreme Court says the Constitution [...]
Obama’s doin’ okay!
Anytime a center-left politician takes office, libertarians like myself watch closely for fear that they’ll take the opportunity to indulge in all the kinds of collectivist ideas their more extreme buddies natter about in their ears constantly. It has to be said – for whatever reason, whether the current crisis or the desire to [...]
Thanksgiving for The Libertarian Moment!
It isn’t often that an op-ed gives me chills.
This fantastic article by Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch follows hot on the heels of Veronique de Rugy’s piece asserting that, in fact, we’re all freer today than we were 40 years ago, and observes even more fully that we are in fact not only better off [...]
