We’re hearing a lot this year about the secularization of the holiday season. (See, I just did it – I failed to call it “Christmas.”) Battles are being waged in courts over whether Christian groups can stage nativities on public grounds, in the press on whether children should be able to offer explicitly Christian expressions in public schools, and in

As a follow-on to my earlier missive about the sanctity of unconceived human life, I have taken what I believe is a critical step in helping our nation’s leaders see potential children as real people and not just faceless numbers. I have spent the last few days naming my sperm (or at least beginning to – there are apparently quite

Scott Peterson got off lucky. Yeah, he was duly convicted of killing his wife, Laci, and unborn son, Conner, and sentenced to death for his trouble, but in truth he’s fortunate he was only charged with those two murders. For reasons that remain unclear, prosecutors chose not to charge Peterson in the deaths of any of his and Laci’s potential

Well, well – Todd Bertuzzi has cut a deal and will avoid jail time. Meanwhile, it looks more and more like his victim, the Avs’ Steve Moore, will never play again. I doubt I have anything more to say about the gutless punk than I’ve already said (several entries in last year’s March archive, here). And nothing is happening with

The Stations of Falling Daylight and streetlight do a slow crossfade as the clock tower counts to six. January raindrops grow sluggish at 33 Fahrenheit, like eyelids thinking of long, cold sleep. Their frozen dreams must be like prayer, the faith in a sunburst eternal morning and the silvergreen ricochet from one crystal minaret to another, purple, gold, and the

Herbert is on the money today. A reckoning is coming. The Army National Guard revealed last Thursday that it had missed its recruiting goals for the past two months by 30 percent. Lt. Gen. H. Steven Blum, who heads the National Guard Bureau, said: “We’re in a more difficult recruiting environment, period. There’s no question that when you have a

CU Chancellor Richard Byyny resigns post They can deny that the Buff football scandals had anything to do with this all they want, but ain’t nobody buying. AD Dick Tharp is gone, now Byyny is gone, and we’ll have to wait and see if the future holds any great opportunities that have nothing whatsoever to do with the football debacle

Peter Gammons has it about right in his latest ESPN.com commentary, I suppose, although my take is probably less charitable. I’m glad Petey, the gods love his spiteful little soul, finally came through and helped the Sox win it all, but now that the Curse® is broken it’s time for the Sox to move on and spend that money elsewhere.

First, here’s what I said in March of ’03, as we were ramping up the shock-n-awe machine: They might lie dormant for a while, but periodically operations would be carried out – against US troops, against humanitarian workers, against any Western economic development operations (read, oil companies) that dared set up camp in Iraq, and most crucially, against the humanitarian

Just goes to show that you can throw the moneychangers out of the temple, but you can’t throw the temple out of the moneychangers. Or something like that. ——– Original Message ——– Subject: Christian Homeowners, Rates are Rising – Refinance Today Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 12:48:39 -0800 From: Sandra Reply-To: Sandra Best Rates At Christian Family Loans

After months of badgering, I have finally succeeded in talking the esteemed Dr. John Lawrence into joining us here on LiveJournal. John is Professor Emeritus in Philosophy at Morningside College (he now lives in Berkeley) and is a world-renowned expert on the cultural mythologies that we use to define America (for better or worse). I strongly encourage everybody to check

Wake slogged out a good win at Temple last night. They still need to fix the perimeter D – Skip needs to explain the concept of fighting over the top of the pick when the shooter has the ball, for instance. Or jump switch or something. But Temple is always a pain in the ass, especially at home, and Wake

I mean, damn, what will they think of next? Check this from the CSM: The idea behind a podcast is simple, yet brilliant. Instead of using portable MP3 players such as the iPod only for listening to music, new software called iPodder allows one to download prerecorded radio shows onto the devices. Though several radio stations have begun podcasting shows,

Or, What Not to Wear on the Football Field. I’ve been doing plenty of ad hoc bitching about the Buffalo Bills’ uniforms lately, but let me spend a moment or two today getting this into the written record. In sum, these are the worst uniforms in football, and maybe in all of American pro sports. The Bills org clearly wanted

Okay, commentia on the whole Evanescence thing thing ranged from snarky to outright bitchiness, with folks like stevenhart and fikshun leading the charge. Remember: I know where you people live. Now, I get where you’re all coming from, but since I actually liked Fallen a lot, I figured I should expand a bit on the topic. First, no, Evanescence won’t