The No Kool-Aid Zone Blog
I don't drink the Kool-Aid. For Anyone.
A Well-Rounded Panel, Bill Mahre-Style
So we’ve got three months of HBO for free from DirecTV, the worst company in America (ask me why; I’ll be happy to tell you), as a result of my bargaining with them over a promise made to me that DirecTV, the worst company in America, decided not to keep. So I’m flipping thru channels…
Evangelism to the Ends of the Earth
Sure to be the butt of jokes… Given the state of contemporary evangelicalism, I feel it a must to point out that this is a parody. Brought to you by the good folks at Sacred Sandwich.
Would You Admit This If it Were You?
Recently, I came across a church website (a nicely-done one, by the way) advertising a church that I have no doubt has effective ministry in many respects. But one thing struck me as so oddly/sadly out of place: the church admitted to the following two facts: 1. We have an average attendance of 1300. 2.…
Barney Frank: In a Word…
Reprehensible. Here’s Mr. Frank’s latest outrage. A word on the “word” “homophobe”. It’s a silly word, generally used by silly people. It was invented a few years back for no other reason than to serve as a pejorative, to dismiss a whole sector of people (the majority of Americans, depending on who’s counting) as cranks,…
Peter Singer, Atheists, and Free Market Homicide
Dinesh D’Souza writes an interesting article on the ethical consistency of Peter Singer, who follows Nietzsche to places where most atheists–unwilling to be honest about the true implications of their belief system–fear to tread: Staring into the Abyss I find Peter Singer an animal–which, of course, is precisely what Mr. Singer would say of himself!…
Liberty and Free Markets
This little piece makes clear one truth about the importance of the free market: liberty and free markets recognize the truth about human nature. As a libertarian conservative, I believe in the free market because it works, and it works because it is based upon the truth about people as they actually are, unlike socialism,…