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Biden Will Pack the Court?

And why it's a really big deal Court Packing Man, scary stuff. Every right-of-center news outlet heard it: Biden refused to say he wouldn't pack the court. I didn't see a single mainstream news outlet mention it. I'm sure some did, but

Tuesday

As I mentioned yesterday, I was in charge of prom preparations on Saturday. I'm not much of a photographer, but I took my role seriously and did a pretty good job with my iPhone. Here are pictures of my second son right before heading out to pick up

Thursday

Letters to Children: Being in Love When your mother and I first started falling in love, she was living in Ypsilanti and I was living down the road in Ann Arbor. After dating for about a year, I found myself calling her every day and making plans to see her

Saturday

Gay Marriage Insightful piece at Vox Populi on gay marriage [http://vox-nova.com/2012/05/10/why-i-am-annoyed-with-both-president-obama-and-cardinal-dolan-on-the-same-day-on-the-same-issue/] . I can't say I quite agree with it, but the author makes the general point I've made over the years: gay marriage is only succeeding because straight people ruined

Monday

Letters to Children: Marriage I'm not going to recount the history of marriage, or why it is properly viewed as a sacrament, or anything like that. I'm going to talk about your marriage and how to be happy in your marriage and why it will, naturally,

Wednesday

Which Stage is Hardest? I want to start this month of essays with encouraging words for young parents. When my children were little (pre-school), things were hectic. The kids were constantly under-foot and took up huge amounts of time. That was bad enough, but worse, whenever I got exasperated, I

Wednesday

Family Guy I've been reading some Nock. Albert Jay Nock, one of the premier American essayists of the early twentieth century and one of the founders of modern conservative/libertarian thought. A weighty man, that Nock. But also a disturbing man. In a 1964 biography, Robert M. Crunden

Monday

Sign the Covenant . . . Or Not . . . Your Call Kansas is considering a covenant marriage bill [http://www.kansascity.com/news/breaking_news/story/1758247.html]. I don't know much about the Kansas bill, but a covenant marriage is a marriage that can be dissolved only for good cause. It&

The Return Eudemon

North to Alaska I'm not a well-traveled man. I've never been to any continent besides North America, and when I turned 42, I hadn't even traveled to the western United States (a trip to Minneapolis for a Chesterton Conference and across the bridge in

Tuesday Miscellany

A TDE reader sent this link to me last week. I meant to get to it sooner, but didn't. Interesting stuff at Christian Science Monitor: The Coming Evangelical Collapse [http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0310/p09s01-coop.html]. > We are on the verge ”“ within 10 years ”“ of a