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Drought denialism? The Porterville Recorder is a local newspaper down in my home turf of Tulare County. You may have heard of Portervil...

The Eighth Suggestion In the Roman Catholic numbering of the Decalogue, No. 8 is the commandant that forbids lying: Thou shalt not bear ...

The truth is way out there Oh, look what I found in the archives! While rifling through a stack of old print-outs (yes, some of them ev...

A peculiar perspective on politics We've all seen those cars that have been plastered with indicators of the drivers' passions a...

Pretending to draw lessons It's the 40th anniversary of the resignation of our much-unloved 37th president, the only one of the nati...

The “Get a life” edition On July 24, 2014, Daily Kos observed the forty-fifth anniversary of the conclusion of the Apollo 11 moon miss...

By ninety degrees My old office had a Steelcase desk in one corner and two single-person study tables tucked alongside. When the math de...

Been there before The photo-finish in the race for the Democratic nomination for state controller in California has prompted observers t...

An actuarial look Those disappointed in recent Supreme Court decisions will, I hope, refrain from simply accepting defeat. Issues like c...

Make up your own numbers! My in-box is an unending source of delights. I really should unsubscribe from right-wing mailing lists, but ho...

City College gets an extension The biggest community college in California will not have to shut its doors this year. All of that work i...

An apple distance record? I have always read Dear Abby for the humor. I still do. Of course, when the column's originator, Pauline ...

Just very, very sick One of the joys of Facebook is stumbling across long-lost friends or relatives and renewing acquaintances. The down...

Is Jesus stingy? My least favorite teaching task is the assignment of final grades. You can count on it: There will always be a couple o...

The belabors of Hercules Yes, I slipped in to see God's Not Dead the other day, looking about suspiciously at my fellow movie-goers...

When thinking is too much trouble My exams seldom contain surprises, but my students' answers do. Since I'm a firm believer in k...

A liar for Jesus Michael Voris has made a career of being more Catholic than the pope. You'd think, however, that so religious a perso...

Things that you're liable to read in the Bible Protestants often pride themselves on being “Bible-believing Christians” and excoriat...