Graphic Firing Table

  A friend of mine and I were drinking and the conversation turned to the disaster that is the former Ottoman province of Palestine. We both...

  So. Turns out that the "silence" of the night, the cease-fireworks I mentioned yesterday? Had nothing to do either with the Ci...

Thoughts knocking around in my head today: What’s frustrating about my current job situation is that I have several deadlines bearing down o...

I get that this sort of thing has become so utterly bog-standard from the GQP/wingnut Right that the rest of us have gotten to the ¯\_(ツ)_/...

My maternal grandfather was a minister. An odd sort of minister, though. He was an officer in the Salvation Army, in his eyes a soldier f...

My work here in Everett has been postponed, so I'm sitting in the hotel waiting to hear from my temporary masters on what they need me t...

Sometimes I can't resist the urge. It isn't nice, it isn't pretty, and it usually strikes me at the worst of wrong moments. ...

I've got a much longer post up at the Milpub on this subject, but suffice to say that the shootings at the Paris political magazine jus...

Four hundred and ninety-three years ago this month a German monk sent a letter to the Bishop of Mainz complaining about the Church practice ...

A friend of mine posted this little picture to her Facebook page: To which she added "That's my guy..." I looked at this an...

I got more than a little bit of a laugh out of this : "Robertson, the patriarch of the backwater Louisiana clan on the reality show abo...

My friend Labrys is ruminating on Pascal's Wager : "Blaise Pascal made it famous…that bet on God; but he could never have conceive...

I was reading Pierce today on the latest revelation in the ongoing saga that is the Roman Catholic Man-Boy Love Association and had a brief...

I have gotten to a point where it is almost impossible to number the things about the United States (and much of the larger sphere of humani...

There are some ideas that are really, really important to other people that I just don't understand. Not in the "Gee, I can see yo...