Is it? Could it be? Oh my God, it is! It's Lutheran-Themed Humor! The last time I saw this was when Woody on Cheers was getting married! Hey, that consubstantiation stuff is pretty important, but dead elvis has a point: I spent 13 years in the Lutheran school system, learning about Lutheran history and doctrine, and sometimes it was all about kicking the Catholic church's … [Read more...] about “A pastor walks into a bar…”
The Wealth Un-Race
Over on Left2Right, Don Herzog is talking about equal opportunity, using a race as an analogy. Not that I object to his conclusion, but I've never liked the race analogy because it can be misleading. Wealth is not a race, or at least not a normal one. A race is about more than just a race, it's about winning the prizes at the end. When it comes to personal financial … [Read more...] about The Wealth Un-Race
Gleeful Battering
The Gleeful Extremist is bitching about the fact that federal employees leaving work are perfect mugging victims because everyone knows they're not allowed to bring weapons to work. I think I have a solution. After 9/11 a lot of people realized that disarming airplane passengers had a bigger downside than previously believed. But what weapons to allow the passengers for … [Read more...] about Gleeful Battering
Tommy Thompson’s Tips for Terrorists
Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson might be a good administrator for all I know. Certainly his earlier work on Wisconsin's welfare system showed that it was possible to reform welfare without putting poor people through hell. But I've never found him reassuring when it comes to bioterrorism. Which is a little ironic, when you consider that during the … [Read more...] about Tommy Thompson’s Tips for Terrorists
Be the Good Guy
At Town Hall, Thomas Sowell writes about the controversial shooting in Fallujah: Why any such terrorists should be captured alive in the first place is a real question. Because we're the good guys. That's what good guys do. Later, Sowell writes: The Times of London refers to a Marine "killing an unarmed man in cold blood." If that was his purpose he could have … [Read more...] about Be the Good Guy