The latest casualty (pun intended) in the long march of commoditization, convenience, and instant gratification is giving honor to the dead. Apparently, we just don’t have time even to get out of our cars to pay our respects. Behold, drive thru funerals: The funeral home’s president, Ivan (EYE’-vuhn) Phillips, says he expects more customers to […]
Continue reading →You read that headline right. The fine people over at Musical Targets produced a fantastic video of a guy playing America’s national anthem, the Star-Spangled Banner, with a gun. I really don’t think there is anything more peculiarly ’Merican than this (except for maybe this):
Continue reading →There is no denying it—in our day, corporations are people. That was the argument that protected Hobby Lobby from obeying the contraception mandate of Obamacare. And it’s also the reason why corporations like Google are allowed to give as much as they want to political candidates under free speech laws: Google’s political action committee, NetPAC, has […]
Continue reading →By Coke, I mean the dangerous, highly addictive, life-threatening substance we must be protected from at all costs. Not the white powder that got Biden’s son kicked out of the military. Apparently, inner city kids drink a huge amount of sugary beverages, and the civil government, which is apparently responsible for these poor parentless kids, […]
Continue reading →The campaign cocktail recipe for elected officials is so standardized at this point, you can just assume it’s being used without having to listen to campaign speeches. But, just as a representative sample (because you’re not going to get anything else truly representative in any upcoming elections), let’s look at the campaign cocktail of the […]
Continue reading →After the outrage bomb went off over what many considered an illegal subpoena of sermons from five Houston pastors, the city has apparently backed off. Which means it has merely narrowed the scope of its subpoena: The city had asked five pastors for “all speeches, presentations, or sermons” on a variety of topics, including the […]
Continue reading →Amid sanctions on Russia by the US and other Western countries, Vladimir Putin is solidifying his economic relationship with China: And while China remains on the sidelines in Ukraine, the deal with Moscow allows Beijing to signal its sharp disapproval of Western sanctions as a political tool to force Russia to change its policies. “The […]
Continue reading →People like to think that moral events can be isolated. They think somehow that the abortion holocaust has only to do with unborn babies and doesn’t relate to sexual morality, worker demographics, and racial tension (among other things). And they think that socialized healthcare affects only the ability of poor people to procure health services. […]
Continue reading →Paul Krugman, a Nobel Prize winning economist with whom I basically never agree, is back at it again with his five page Rolling Stone article “In Defense of Obama.” I’ve gotten used to the drivel he’s normally spouting about the unexpected success of Obamacare and the swelling economy and all the rest, but one particular paragraph of […]
Continue reading →According to Seattle, yesterday was Indigenous People’s Day. Not Columbus Day: The name change comes after activists pushed for a day to honor indigenous people instead of Christopher Columbus, the most recognizable figure linked to European contact with the Americas. “This is about taking a stand against racism and discrimination,” Seattle City Council member Kshama […]
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