My friend Saintseester is burying her brother Doug today. He had a heart attack at work on Monday. He was 42 years old, which meets no reasonable definition of “old enough.” What can you say but that you’re so sorry, and that you’re thinking of and praying for her family? There’s nothing. This is the … Read more
When I was 7 or 8, Mom and Dad got a candy assortment for Christmas. It had cool stuff in it, like a small shallow bucket of hard licorice with a little hammer to smash pieces off, and some rock that I really enjoyed. There were also some individually wrapped hard candies that tasted like … Read more
As I’ve said before, there are no good solutions to this problem, but I think targeted air strikes are one of the less bad options. Joe Biden recently took a diplomatically disastrous trip to Israel. (Who better to send on a state visit to a critical ally in the least stable part of the world … Read more