We’re now seven or eight years into this “social media” thing, and the conversations around it are still the same. I bit on a tweet this morning from Laura Monroe, even though I tend to follow a simple rule popularized by Gahlord Dewald – “I stopped reading anything with a question in the headline.” In general, this […]
Welcome To Victorian Kansas
I just read all of HOUSE BILL No. 2453, recently passed the Kansas Legislature. It is described as “protecting religious freedom regarding marriage” in the excerpt that leads to it from the Kansas Legislature list of bills. It’s only three pages long. I encourage you to do the same, but you don’t have to read very […]
The Illusion Of Knowing Something
I have not read the Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act. I’d be more ashamed of myself if I weren’t quite certain that I’m not even close to being alone. It would be an overly generous estimate to say that 1 in 1000 people have read it in full. After after having simply scanned it, frankly, I’d be surprised if even 20% of our elected officials have read this document in its entirety.
On Over Intellectualizing
Over intellectualizing is to treat something in an excessively intellectual manner. Yesterday I was accused of this. I don’t care.
In Search Of The Infinite State
A friend of mine made a horrible mistake this morning. He did something he rarely does. He made a political statement on Facebook. It was a fairly benign comment about the unpopularity of congress in general, not about one party or another. Of course, you couldn’t tell that from the comment stream that followed.
Values Are Illuminated By Crisis: Remembering A 9/11 Hero
I don’t often cry openly on an airplane in front of strangers. On a December 12, 2006 JetBlue flight to New York, I did. That day, on the History Channel, I came face to face with a man who walked the talk of his stated values and lived them so clearly that it brought me to […]
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