Monthly Archives: April 2009

Double-teaming Ross Douthat

Lent’s over and Stacy — The Other McCain — is released from his vow of giving up the pleasure of punk-smacking Ross Douthat. I picked up the slack a couple of times during Lent — here and here — just so Douthat would stay in punching-bag shape, and I thought I could let Stacy resume …

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Stars fell on Alabama

I just moseyed over to The Other McCain to see why so many nice folks are coming my way from there. Thank you, Stacy, for honoring me with today’s “Full Metal Jacket Reach-Around Award” in observance of your Rule 2 for How to Get a Million Hits in a Year on Your Blog. Yesterday I …

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Pretty much everyone is some kind of creationist except my father

(NOTE: It would be very helpful if some of y’all would click the “Donate” button to help me buy about $100 in materials I’d like to use to explain the coding theory you need to know to understand why the origin of life is an axiom of biology just as the origin of matter is …

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'Jesus loves me this I know for the Bible tells me so'

When I was a reporter for the Harford Democrat (1980-1982), social conservatives were on a rampage about the quality of education in local schools. The vice president of their group was an English teacher. I received a press release from them about how important it was to censor the books in the local schools that …

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