I did my taxes last week. In stark contrast to last year, when I did my taxes at the last minute because the Wanderer’s insane boss didn’t get the paperwork to us until the week before the deadline (yes, we know it’s illegal, no, there’s not a damn thing we can do about it in [...]
Archive for March, 2008
Expelled by Expelled
Expelled is a film by an American celebrity by the name of Ben Stein (you’d know him if you saw him). It appears to be more creationist hogwash. It appears coloured with this recurring idea of “rebellion” and conspiracy; the suggestion that explains how everyone in the world (especially scientists) are plotting to destroy god-fearing [...]
Primary sources are your friends
I read a lot about how Obama failed spectacularly to distance himself from the racially-charged statements of his pastor, and had little interest in reading “the race speech” (probably to be filed in the history books right after Romney’s “faith speech” as the rhetorical means and ends were pretty similar). Even so, I wandered into [...]
Wander’s End
So, let my take this opportunity to clear up some of the rumors that seem to be bouncing around over there. (And probably to create a few more, but hey…who’s counting?)
Two faces?
I often think, especially while reading the unbroken streams of drivel posted by the Prairie Muffins and ideologically similar folks, that those who object most strenuously to perceived moral flaws in the world have deep, private flaws of their own.
Apparently the soon-to-be ex-governor of New York is another tick in this box:
Gov. Eliot Spitzer, [...]