I had covered the groundbreaking of the minaret—the first to be built in St. Louis. The mayor had been there to praise pluralism and throw a little dirt around for the cameras… Now I wrote a second story, which was maybe twelve column-inches …
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Straight from the programming trenches, The Pragmatic Programmer cuts through the increasing specialization and technicalities of modern software development to examine the core process--taking a requirement and producing working, maintainable code that …
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In case you aren't up on your numerology... Today is June 6, 2006, or 6/6/2006, or 6/6/06, or just 6/6/6. If you're going to celebrate, just remember: Never summon anything larger than your head.
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I can't decide if this is hilariously bad or... No, wait, laughably bad. That's it.
From talk2action:
Imagine: you are a foot soldier in a paramilitary group whose purpose is to remake America as a Christian theocracy, and establish its worldly …
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On Israel's Ariel Sharon:
"Here he's at the point of death," Robertson told viewers in early January, "he was dividing God's land. And I would say, woe unto any prime minister of Israel who takes a similar course to appease the E.U., the United …
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Plan B has made front-page news recently, with reports that some pro-life pharmacists are refusing to fill prescriptions for emergency contraception because they believe the drugs cause abortion. Fourteen states have drafted legislation that would allow …
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Startling new underground group spreads lack of panic! Citizens declare themselves "relatively unafraid" of threats of undeclared rationality. People can still go to France, terrorist leader says.
We are Unitarian Jihad, and our motto is: "Sincerity is …
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Richard Land was on NPR's Fresh Air today, prompted, I think, by the explosive success of Jim Wallis' "God's Politics".
Anyway... He mentioned "Just War Theory", which I hadn't heard of recently... That lead me to Google for the specifics …
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I fully realize that politicians lie. I get that.
What I don't get, is why so many Christians — including MY OWN parents — the ones who have and continue to foam at the mouth over the lies told by other presidents (especially Clinton!) …
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I can't understand being Pro-Life and Pro-Death-Penalty and/or Pro-War. I mean, I can understand the hot-blooded emotions that run with these sentiments, but I just don't get how one person can hold both ideas, and be self-consistent, let alone …
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Hi! I'm Joshua Wehner, and this is my blog.
