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If this had come on 4/1 I could have understood it as an April Fool’s joke. But apparently it is serious. Based on Apple’s unbelievable success with its retail stores, Microsoft is going to be launching a branded store of its own. Yes, a place where you can buy your very own Zune and Microsoft…

Ok, I’m sorry. I was offended. I figured the bubble had been pierced and instead of finding a sort of Robert Kennedy on the inside I’d found Richard Dawkins. But then I heard Sen. Obama’s response to the question tonight and I’m repentant for having jumped to such a gnarly conclusion so quickly: Mr. Obama:…

“[I]t’s not surprising, then, that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.” This quote is the equivalent of Howard Dean’s scream in Iowa, of the perception that Muskie cried in New Hampshire,…

It has been exactly five years since I was diagnosed with a brain tumor. Last night as I lay in bed thinking about it I fixated on 1,825. That is the number of days I have been blessed with since that night I survived the car accident brought on by a seizure caused by said…

Read Anne.

I’m kind of thinking Jesus would dress a whole lot more like the guy on the right than the one of the left. You?

In the fall of 1986 I was a college freshman away on some spiritual retreat. I had chosen God over the New York Mets because there weren’t any TVs around the weekend retreat and my beloved Mets were in the World Series. To make matters worse, I was attending college in Boston, home of the…

10 days ago at 4:15pm a little boy name Dickens died in a small clinic in a poor city in a country called Uganda. I’ve scarcely been able to write since that day. I got the news on a text on the very iPhone that had dazzled the little boy a month earlier. I let…

Great satire… genius satire…Here are some of the lyrics:”You see this battle’s been raging since Zeus was on the Bottlebetween science like Democritus and faith like Aristotlewho said the mover was movin’ like some magic trickbut that’s not good logicmy posse’s too quickfor this religious schtick.’Cause science is the only way to know y’all,So stand…

I am moved by Joe Carter’s post on America’s silent shame of prison rape: We are justifiably outraged by the human rights abuses occurring in foreign lands. So why aren’t we more outraged by the atrocities here in our own country? Our reactions to the problem tend to range from smirking indifference to embarrassed silence.…
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