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I wish I was there.� It’s probably the most positive gathering on earth, including churches.� Why?� Because of the indomitable focus on solutions to social ills, exactly the type of problems that Jesus focused on, and implored His followers to champion. (Read Matthew 25).
Here are links:
The United States Social Forum which is ongoing in Atlanta.
The [...]

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And SNL actually allowed this to be played. Nice.

Nancy Pelosi took impeachment off the table. I was angry about that until this morning when I looked at the situation through her eyes:

She had to know that impeachment of Bush without impeaching Cheney would just be a cruel joke.
She also had to know that of any President & VP ever impeached, the charges [...]

Bill Maher, meet Jon Stewart.
Okay, they’ve already met, I’m sure.
And they share overlapping public mindspace: socially conscious comedians not afraid to mock the powers-that-be. In recent years, their biting, belly-laugh inducing commentaries on Bush & Company have sustained more than a few of us in the dark years of [...]

Certain questions are very ugly.
“Are you the parent or guardian of a Johnny Q. Doe?”
“Have you prepared a will?”
“Honey, can I make a confession to you?”
You simply know that with the answers to these kinds of questions opens up a discouraging and messy new chapter in a life that now just got terribly complicated. [...]

With apologies to Sen. Obama (*winces*), for whom I would still vote should Al not run, I have to agree with Tim Dickinson of Rolling Stone (thanks to Crooks and Liars for showing me):
If the Democrats were going to sit down and construct the perfect candidate for 2008, they’d be hard-pressed to improve on [...]

I don’t have sympathy for criminals. I watched the COPS reality show faithfully until it became so repetitious. I have respect for law enforcement, because they keep the peace and protect the good people from the bad people. I have a nephew and at least one former student who have put on [...]

UPDATE: March 29, 2008: I guess I spoke too soon. While this new Congress has accomplished more than the last already, they haven’t done what they were sent there to do, namely end the war and impeach the war criminals. I feel that my vote was robbed from me by an ineffectual, elitist [...]

From Adventist Peace Messenger:
Dietrich Bonhoeffer on 2 Corinthians 12:9:
Christianity stands or falls with its revolutionary protest against violence, arbitrariness and pride of power and with its plea for the weak. Christians are doing too little to make these points clear rather than too much. Christendom adjusts itself far too easily to the worship of [...]

I don’t know, but this op-ed said what I’ve been saying [in other words] for quite some time here on the blog.
A word to the “Values Voter”: The GOP has now demonstrated conclusively that all Americans, and especially evangelicals, should run from it as from Old Scratch himself. After all, you can’t support prayer in [...]