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Pollan plays Cornhole with Vilsack
By
Tony Jones
This morning, on NPR, Michael Pollan expressed his deep ambivalence about Obama’s Ag Sec pick, Tom Vilsack. Contrary to what one commenter expressed on my earlier post about this, I have and will continue to criticize BO when I disagree with him, even though he is my “brother in Christ.”
Comment(s) of the Day
By
Tony Jones
Well, color me astonished. Mega-commenter A Walker shows us all that he’s not just a one-trick (SSM) pony. He’s not only familiar with Walter Rauschenbush, but he favorably quotes the social gospeler in response to my Rick Warren post of yesterday. AW also seems to be a preterist: I’ve read two of Walter Rauschenbusch’s books,…
Food Fight! Beliefnet Bloggers Debate Rick Warren
By
Tony Jones
There’s a bit of an in-house dust-up here at Bnet over Steve Waldman’s extensive interview with Rick Warren (VIDEO / TRANSCRIPT). Steve’s posted on it a few times, as have others around the blogosphere. But here in the friendly confines of Bnet, a couple of my peers are at odds over the Purpose-Driven (TM) Pastor’s…
Playing Cornhole with Vilsack
By
Tony Jones
Let me agree with Rod, Ezra, and Matt that Tom Vilsack is a very disappointing pick by Obama for Secretary of Agriculture. As someone who lives in corn-producing state, I’ve seen my otherwise level-headed governor pander time and time again to Big Corn and push ethanol, even though economists and scientists agree that corn-based ethanol…
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