Intelligent Design — Unintelligent Design (ID versus DUD)

Proponents of Intelligent Design (ID) believe the universe and living things seem so complex that an intelligent agent must have conceived and fashioned them. When these proponents (IDers) say agent, they do not mean an FBI agent or a secret agent like 007. They mean a deity or an industrious false God or maybe just [...]

Tickle Tickle You Terrorist

The Bush Administration has decided to acquiesce to Sen. John McCain’s bill to ban cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment of enemy combatants, a vague term the Bush Administration uses to mean anything from “people who have taken up arms against the United States” to “foreign people whom we don’t like.”
Prohibited interrogation techniques such as [...]

Insanity Claus not Santa Claus Is Coming to Town

When I was a towheaded cherub of a pudknocker, my father set me down one Christmas Eve, and he said to me, “Son, I think you’re ready now so I’m going tell you something.”
“Dad,” I interrupted, “I already know about what you want to say to me. You are going to tell me life [...]

Oak Park Library Balms Away

The other day someone assumed I believed “all taxes are evil” and wanted to slash the budget of the Oak Park Library. I always tell people to avoid assumption. It just leads to presumption which seems backwards. You would think it would lead to postasumption.