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Frankenstein Unbound

Forfare Davis

Read part one here. “Those institutions and reporters were never as good as their reputations. . . . It was largely—and this was true for decades—a small group of...

Washington’s Politics of Reality Distortion

Forfare Davis

I don’t give a [expletive] about piracy. But for that money I have to admit, I started getting a little interested in piracy,” so said former Senator Bob Kerrey when...

America’s Mandarin Problem

Forfare Davis

A physicist, a chemist, and an economist are stranded on an island, with nothing to eat. A can of soup washes ashore. The physicist says, “Let’s smash the can...

Some are born to blog, and some have blogging thrust upon them.

Forfare Davis

There’s a joke that circulates among evangelical circles about Presbyterians. The joke asks why Presbyterians don’t raise their hands during worship. The answer: because they’re afraid God will call...