I often read news stories about the special kind of foolishness exhibited by schools. They leave me scratching my head wondering, what were they thinking? How could they have possibly believed this was a good idea? Most of the time, these stories concern hysterical overreactions to trivial misbehaviors, lame-brained “zero tolerance” policies, and dumb grading Read the rest
When the news broke that Lance Armstrong would cop to doping, some commenters started to call the organization that he founded, the LIVESTRONG Foundation, into question. Bloggers, talking heads, and bloviating pundits love to demonize both people and organizations. It’s true that some people and organizations are thoroughly bad and have no redeeming qualities, but Read the rest
I knew a family once who always had busy, crowded Sunday dinners together. They lived in a big, old house that had a huge living room and an old-fashioned formal dining room. As the family dinners grew with grandchildren, cousins, and friends, Grandpa turned the dining room into a parlor and the living room into Read the rest
A lot of the discussion about Lance Armstrong is about ends justifying means, whether he deserves any credit for the LIVESTRONG Foundation, and so on. Most commentators want to paint him either black or white. Like most of life, it’s just not that simple: Armstrong is a seriously flawed person who has done dishonest and Read the rest
The European Union celebrates the USSR and, presumably, its slaughter of 30 million people over three generations of hideous evil. One can only assume that the swastika is missing from this poster only because Hitler failed to show proper respect for Stalin and Soviet communism. This is the Euro-socialism Obama and his progressive cronies in Read the rest
The Great Commission includes three specific tasks: “… [1] make disciples of all nations, [2] baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and [3] teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of Read the rest
Every time someone speaks or writes the name of the evil little worm who turned our attention to Sandy Hook Elementary School, a stone is added to his monument. One day, another evil little worm, who is as willing to violate gun control laws as he to violate laws against murder, will decide he wants Read the rest