Posts from the ‘Politics and Current Events’ Category
We’re coming up on the one-year anniversary of the tsunami the Japanese call 3/11. I originally posted this video last year on March 22. A year later, this still blows my mind If you haven’t seen it elsewhere, this is one of the most incredible videos of the tsunami that I’ve seen. It’s nine minutes […]
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A strange theft in a Dublin cathedral was in the news. But how can thieves take what was already gone?
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Tonight’s GOP primary debate in nearby Mesa comes at a good time, since I have to decide and can’t. I wonder what I’m looking for.
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I go back and forth with Facebook, like a lot of people (Steve, for one). I was typically late getting into it and since then I seem to always either be excited about the good stuff or fed up with the bad. It’s a way to keep up with people I don’t see much anymore, […]
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The perception is that Obama’s supposed compromise on his ill-received HHS ruling amounted to him capitulating to religious opposition. But if he gave in, why do I feel so insulted?
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Watched a fascinating History Channel program last night on the Kennedy assassination and the flurry of conspiracies that have persisted about it. I found this interesting, because I did get a little caught up in the study of the inconsistencies — courtesy of a silly little do-it-yourself JFK conspiracy “kit” I came across in the […]
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I thought the Orthodox Study Bible footnote to Luke 12:51 (“Do you suppose that I came to give peace on earth? I tell you, not at all, but rather division.”) was worth extra attention. There are two kinds of peace. False peace, to which Chist refers here, is a shallow harmony that results from ignoring […]
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Filed under ‘How Low Can You Go?’ this from the ABC Webpage for Houston: Police say there’s a woman stealing from purses in the middle of church services all over the Houston area and some people may not even realize they’ve fallen victim to her. Sheriff’s deputies believe she has targeted victims across the city and […]
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Working on an editorial cartoon for Memorial Day (which I’ll include at bottom), I came across this short video tribute to those who died in wartime, and was touched by the evocative images and footage. But there’s more division on this issue than we always care to admit. When the photos of Arlington Cemetery came […]
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Well, shucks. The Rapture didn’t happen last Saturday. As I told WordMama, I’m kind of relieved to hear it, actually. What if the Rapture DID happen, and you’re one of the LeftBehinds? You’d get all sweaty like the guys in the Chick tracts. And in case you hadn’t heard, Harold Camping took another look at […]
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