I’m on deck for another colonoscopy. Thanks, Dad.
Jimmy Carter was a Baptist. I once was, too. So I know something about him you might not.
Don’t read Plato’s Republic. It will scared the bejesus out of you.
All I want for Christmas is peace on earth. And if that’s too much to ask, I’ll settle for peace in the Middle East.
I stumbled on Shepherdstown 50 years ago this week.
Creationists wield the biblical story of creation to oppose the exclusive teaching of evolution in American public schools.
Many of you will be at my book launch this afternoon. Most won’t. Many of you live a long ways from Shepherdstown
Some of you “corrected” me for what I said in last Sunday’s post. It wasn’t for my praise of education.
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States. There has always been.
We are many. They are more. I don’t like them. They laugh. We mourn.
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