Matt’s Marvelous Mailbag seeks to provide marginally adequate answers to much better questions about politics, economics, social life, theology, or any potpourri you see fit to have answered. Send questions to mailbag.bereans@gmail.com. What’s this? A mailbag on Tuesday? “Burn him at the stakes for heresy!” I know, I know, but hey I’ve been traveling a […]
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The Mailbag! – Vol. 31
02 Jul 2019
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Democratic Debate Takes
28 Jun 2019
The Democrats just concluded the first round of debates for the party’s 2020 presidential nomination. Here are some quick observations: We have a tendency to overvalue these early skirmishes. We are still many months ahead of any caucus or primary and most voters have not tuned into the process. Inexperienced candidates are learning on the […]
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The Bullington Diatribe Chronicles will run occasionally for the amusement of some, the facepalming of many others, and the inconvenience of all. The following is satire….obviously. Ah, this is what we were really waiting for all this time, wasn’t it folks? Joe Biden stroking the Dr. Evil cat while taking slow, deep, diaphragmatic breaths of […]
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The Bullington Diatribe Chronicles will run occasionally for the amusement of some, the facepalming of many others, and the inconvenience of all. The following is satire….obviously. Well, the nation did it ladies and gentlemen. Through two hours of heavy drinking and intermittent napping, 37 of the 50 states emerged intact from the 12 Angry Men/Raging […]
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Campaign 2020 Is Here: Yipee.
26 Jun 2019
The first battalion of Democratic candidates kick off the debate season tonight, and I, for one, could not be happier. There has been a gaping hole in my life, a tireless quest for meaning, a blind shamble toward an existential abyss. A debate season that features two or three dozen candidates getting 90 seconds to […]
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The Mailbag! – A Softball Reflection
24 Jun 2019
Matt’s Marvelous Mailbag seeks to provide marginally adequate answers to much better questions about politics, economics, social life, theology, or any potpourri you see fit to have answered. Send questions to mailbag.bereans@gmail.com. I hope you guys aren’t getting tired of it just being me posting throughout the summer. Such is the natural course of a […]
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The Mailbag! – Vol. 30
17 Jun 2019
Matt’s Marvelous Mailbag seeks to provide marginally adequate answers to much better questions about politics, economics, social life, theology, or any potpourri you see fit to have answered. Send questions to mailbag.bereans@gmail.com. We have a strangely apolitical and short mailbag this week, but seeing as it’s summer and everyone’s on vacation anyway, I think we’ll […]
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The Mailbag! – Vol. 29
10 Jun 2019
Matt’s Marvelous Mailbag seeks to provide marginally adequate answers to much better questions about politics, economics, social life, theology, or any potpourri you see fit to have answered. Send questions to mailbag.bereans@gmail.com. Q: Daniel asks: “Thoughts regarding the recent revelations surrounding Martin Luther King Jr.? How do we reconcile revelations like this regarding people, who […]
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D-Day +75: An Astonishing Achievement
06 Jun 2019
Every American should take a pilgrimage to the cemetery that overlooks those beaches.
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The Mailbag! – Vol. 28
03 Jun 2019
Matt’s Marvelous Mailbag seeks to provide marginally adequate answers to much better questions about politics, economics, social life, theology, or any potpourri you see fit to have answered. Send questions to mailbag.bereans@gmail.com. So there I was, checking the mailbag and wondering to myself if anyone was going to send something in for this week, when […]