London Going to Austin, Texas from time to time, you still see bumper stickers and window signs in this huge, boomtown that still say, “Keep Austin Weird.” At least with politics there’s no need for a bumper sticker, because these days it seems all about making sure politics is weird. In the United Kingdom, the …
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Political Spoilers from the Left
Baltimore Ok, the Tea Party is full of known whacks. We all know that. We can all agree that they were dead as a doornail as a mass-based organization. Recently, they staged a series of rallies during the recess that had to be scrubbed, because nobody came. Everyone agrees that they are totally off the …
Religious Adaptation: Scouts, Immigrants and Whistleblowers Make Me Wonder
Little Rock Talking to someone yesterday who wanted to do a series of reports for KABF community radio about religion, caught me up short and forced me to actually think for a minute about the strange and interesting stirrings within religious denominations that might just indicate that in the face of declining membership, some of them …