Also, which state, cause that sounds fun?*

Everything is either concave or convex and thus all things can be reduced to sex.

Are you contrasting coups against the possibility of doing good or the possibility of being funny? Because I maintain that even attempting a coup is evidence of potential for both!

State legislators can actually do some good, though the perennial insistence on wading in on culture wars is always hilarity.

Yeah, I am peripherally involved in marketing in DFW and this is the first time I have ever heard about that show or even the station.

That's certainly not limited to the right, however, boycott culture is its own independent weird behavior in our culture with hooks in a straight up shocking number of places.

No quotes, loads of strange both in and out of context photos, though.

And to be doubly fair Hispanics come in both white and non-white varieties - at least as far as the census is concerned.

Classical paganism only goes to the mountaintop - space is for crudely drawn animals and gravemarkers.

Obviously, yes.

There's certainly a lot more variety than what you would find in simple Calvinism, yes, but there are also groups who are very serious about being that simple, though their reasons for insisting on that are often subject to a lot of distortion.

I really don't think that criticism has strong standing given what we've seen of the Gundersons' circumstances and the variety of circumstances among those who are involved in the criminal conspiracy.

Coming from a background in rhetoric I'm a little less sanguine about 'either / or' arguments in general. If that's your concern the problem with absolutes is going to start a lot earlier than God with, say, a faith that you really comprehend how caring works much less power and knowing.

I have a friend who does moral philosophy for students (teaching is a real stretch) and that exact scenario shows up endlessly.

Deep in the future history of the Simpsons is an auto-biography by Bart that goes into how this particular relationship with his father was enabled him to transition from a demolitions man/lawyer, to a presidential brother, to a supreme court justice, and then, eventually, prophet.

I don't think I'd put Peter as exactly that cyclical. Potential recent turns aside, he's certainly made a lot of progress over the course of the early seasons show and even though he let ambition (and family drama/paternalism) derail that progress he's certainly not in the place where he has 'friends' for whom he did…

And it's flower merchants, devotees of Aphrodite, diplomats and agitators in the Peloponnesian War, overland ship transit systems, and citadels for celibate crusading knights.

I do think the Good Wife does grapple with faith - and lately with the matrices that underlie it - in some interesting ways, but I don't think that it has done so in the ways discussed in the article. More in the fashion of Mad Men or Hill Street Blues, though I think the Good Wife does a better job overall than Mad…

That is, more or less, the argument surrounding Calvinism.

Ugh, the real reason is that guns are both awesome and horrible.