I live in a village with three stop lights, one of which blinks when school is out of session. I am a white college professor on a mostly white campus within a white religious tradition. The smoke, shattered glass, and pepper spray now etched into too many urban landscapes are alien, but so is having […]

President Obama flouted executive authority and too often politicized the law. These attitudes spilled into the transition of power, it seems, as federal agents targeted Michael Flynn, the incoming National Security Advisor of the Trump Administration. Obama and Flynn had a complicated past, and Flynn paid a heavy price. Retired Gen. Flynn, a Democrat, served […]

In continuing the discussion of the false dichotomy, I still see the inevitable question from media types (both regular and social) asking basically why doesn’t Mr. Trump edict to the red state yahoos that are not taking this seriously. After all, science must be the arbiter of this decision. I think its important to remind […]

Is anybody else frustrated at the false dichotomy that is continually talked about of whether we reopen again and when? When the reality is that we must reopen and the question is how? Even in a shut down, which does have remarkably lower economic activity, we still eat, we still consume resources, and those resources […]

The debt buildup continues to melt up, with another $483B in “stimulus” heading somewhere, after the previous $2T. And there will be more–count on it. And that doesn’t include the Fed’s monetary “whatever it takes” policy of buying bonds and other assets, to include state and local government debt. Fed assets are up over $2.5T […]

Americans of all stripes and sides assert their rights. Religious Americans are no different. In some ways, this is glorious. We should be jealous of our rights. After all, we believe they are OUR rights. The Declaration claims government exists to secure those rights–not “grant” them or “recognize” them, but to secure them. Advocating for […]

You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before. Rahm Emanuel Progressives boldly suggested that the 2008 financial crisis should not go to waste. As Rahm Emanuel argued, it was possible to use it as a […]

I have the ultimate authority. President Donald Trump, April 13, 2020 Mt. Trump was built with a shovel. It started with “rapists and thieves,” which was quickly followed by “I like people who weren’t captured.” The dirt pile became a hill and grew into an overwhelming peak. “I got a beautiful letter.” “Mexico is gonna […]

**This is a follow-up on a previous post about Covid-19 and innumeracy** So, what’s a model? I was not much into model cars or planes as a kid, but I made a few. I had a phase that included extra glue, rubber cement, paints, and brushes. Done well, models are shiny and attractive. Expensive model […]

To avoid panic, understand numbers. As we hunker down for the foreseeable future, many Americans are using their newly found free time to scour the world for news of Covid-19. As a story, the pandemic has many prongs, but most of them, at least outside the immediacy and tragedy of struggling patients and medical workers, […]