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There is no religion in it and, again, that is what interests me. There are legal question. There are questions about medicine and even therapy. There are life and death questions. There are even hints that moral questions may be involved. But that’s it.
Don’t get me started on the state of air travel these days. My wife and I had lots (and lots) of extra time yesterday in Logan International Airport during a trip north for parents day at Gordon College, and I spent much of that time digging really deep into the new issue of The New Republic.
I am, at the moment, reading The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright. It’s an amazing book (a Pulitzer Prize winner), especially if you are interested in the foundational beliefs that fuel the fire in the Al-Qaeda faithful.
A Washington Post story has been bothering me for more than a week and I have had trouble figuring out why.
You have to admit it. This Associated Press story includes a direct quote from a source that is, under normal circumstances, hard to quote — except from printed documents of an ancient nature.
The Amish are not known as easy interviews. In fact, many do not like to talk to journalists at all and, when they talk, they often speak German.
The Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore has a new leader and, as you would expect, the Baltimore Sun put the installation rites on page one. And, as you would expect, the story was a mix of pageantry and pieces of the sermon by Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien that had political implications.
After watching a round of CNN over lunch, I think we can now proclaim this the political story of the day. You know that this development is causing a round of celebrations in the Hillary Clinton headquarters, since third-party bids are what opens the door for candidates with consistent high, high negative numbers in polls.
