Forgive the crassness of that declaration, but the widespread news coverage of the impending Rapture on Saturday night has me envisioning a bit off lower-case rapture. And I realize how pathetic that sounds that a grown man would feel compelled to invoke the end of the world in order to foster carnal pursuits, but...

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OK, everybody raise their hand. With all of the horrible weather events that have taken place in the last decade or so, how many of you have thought – way deep down – “I wonder if all these storms and floods and hurricanes could somehow be linked to the frantic warnings we’ve been getting...

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Grrrrr. Two of my least favorite things reared their ugly heads at right about the same time in recent days, and since it gives me indigestion to write about either of them, I figured I’d get it out of my system and address both of them at the same time. Andre Ethier, a member...

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The so-called “Birther” debate makes us all look like idiots. For a while I thought I had a neat two-question template for determining if I needed to spend any time at all discussing anything more important than a recipe for bean dip with somebody I didn’t know: “Do you believe that Barack Obama was...

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I have watched the whole Charlie Sheen debacle with great sadness over the last several months, which seems to contrast sharply with how the whole pathetic charade is being treated in the broader culture. And it makes absolutely no difference to me that Sheen himself is orchestrating all this, an observation that would seem...

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It used to be thought that sports served as a kind of escape from the everyday grind of modern life, offering a respite from the unending litany of depressing news from the world of politics and international events. The former was regarded as frivolous but entertaining, the latter as vitally important but grimly serious....

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