Every argument starts with an assumption. Usually more than one. If I assume the Bible is the literal Word of God and you assume it’s a dangerous collection of fairy tales, we’re going to have a hard time agreeing on anything that touches my religion–which is pretty much everything. If I assume Ted Cruz is […]
This is my first post for the Your Turn Challenge. Every day for the next seven days, I will post here. Progress toward my goals: Marathon: On Track. I started week two of the Couch to 5K program this morning. I’ve managed to suck my son in; he ran with me this morning, and says […]
I can’t let Dr. King’s day go by without posting something in his honor. His very name inspires visions of courage: not the swaggering bravado of the nineteenth century, nor even the forward-at-all-costs determination of the industrial-age soldiers we came to admire in the twentieth. Martin Luther King’s courage was something different. It’s one thing, […]