In the paper today was an article about anti-enlightment folks co-opting the global warming debate with their stance against evolution. These types of reports tend to annoy me in general (I’m always reminded of the MLK quote “Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity”), and the older I [...]

The NY Times Charles Blow runs an interesting blog called “By the Numbers”. In it he sifts through various polls and surveys to try and get a picture of trends within our country. Today’s editorial features his view of the future of GOP. He thinks they’re in for some trouble. He attributes the rise of [...]

My liberal leaning wife and I live in a conservative town where the local newspaper seems to only print letters to the editor that  come from folks who are convinced that Democrats equal the destruction of America. Part of this may be the looser syndrome. When Bush was in office I seem to remember quite [...]