faith in honest doubt

McCain's VP choice supports creationism and doesn't think global warming is caused by human activity; naturally she's anti-abortion and anti-gay, but not as radically anti-gay as most of the Wide Stance party. Bravo? Serious question: is there any remotely credible line of argument that says this person, Sarah Palin, is the most capable, most qualified, most prepared person to be the USA's...

It turns out John McSame's criticisms of Barack Obama's lack of experience, especially on foreign affairs, were completely phony: McSame has picked Alaska governor Sarah Palin to be his vice president. At 44, Palin is younger than some of McSame's children, served as a small-town mayor before her election as Alaska's governor in 2006, and has no experience with foreign policy. None. It's worth...

I've probably given Pastor Rick Warren more pixels than he deserves on this precious, precious blog, but for those who think he's some kind of departure from the Kulturkampf Christianism of Falwell, Robertson, Dobson, and the rest, it's worth noting the questions he chose to ask the presidential candidates -- and those he chose not to ask at the Saddleback Forum, in which McCain famously repeated...

I'm biased, but I loved every word of Obama's acceptance speech (full text). If he can withstand the trashing that's sure to come from the McSame camp and actually win the presidency, this speech will be long remembered. From the closing: You know, this country of ours has more wealth than any nation, but that's not what makes us rich. We have the most powerful military on Earth, but that's not...

I just heard something that suggests I may have found a new folly to watch for: I overheard a guy report with seeming embarrassment that he would have to wear a blue shirt over blue pants today. I looked, and the blue pants in question were rather typical looking blue jeans. And then another guy chimed in rather uncertainly with, "well, don't feel bad, I am wearing blue and blue today too" or...

One of John McCain's key advisors on health care policy, John Goodman, has a novel idea that happens to be exactly the Wide Stance party's answer to votes cast in swing states: stop the counting and declare victory!“So I have a solution. And it will cost not one thin dime,“ Mr. Goodman said. “The next president of the United States should sign an executive order requiring the Census...

In reply to an earlier post on punishing women for the "crime" of being raped, a commenter I'll call Nazir has a lot to say, some of which makes just enough sense to justify a response.the learned author has in mistaken impression tried to join the circumstancial occasioning and theology together while commenting on the sex abuse of afgan woman. Thanks for calling me learned, but I was not the one...