Tuesday afternoon: Provisions: two six-packs of Flying Dog Brewery’s “Raging Bitch” Belgian-style pale ale. Carton of cigarettes. A well-charged phone and access to GrubHub. TV on C-SPAN. Click! Some kind of huge young Republican male is talking angrily about how Obama’s screwed his generation. And now a similarly huge young Republican female is doing likewise, giving [...]
Because Cuba is tiny, Fidel Castro has never racked up the body count of the 20th century’s other dictators, despots, and strongmen. But he still might be eviler than they. For neither Hitler, nor Stalin, nor Mao, nor Kim Jong Un, nor Pol Pot, nor Charles Taylor, nor any of the rest possessed the power [...]
The Washington Post reported this week on the planned construction of a “Bible museum” in Washington D.C. This ought to be happy news for those of us fascinated by the Bible’s power, longevity, and million tantalizing clues to the deep history of human civilization in North Africa. As it happens, the museum’s not for us. It is, [...]
You already know this: while earning your college degree was informative and pleasant enough, plenty of us head in a different direction. Or maybe the experience wasn’t so awesome or helpful, but we’re sticking, steadfast and stubborn, to what we set out for in the first place. Joshua Miller, the executive director and founder of [...]
