Author: Tod Kelly

As most here know, I am an avowed Basketball & NBA fan.  I’m an addict that refuses the 12 steps. And while we don’t usually do sports highlights here, I am going to do...

(Note: This week Rufus brought up the point that with so many posts these days it’s easy to miss stuff.  He suggested we begin doing a weekly review, similar to The Dish.  Great idea!...

(Note: For those that are stumbling upon this enterprise for the first time, an explanation of of my Grasping at Belief posts can be found here.)   Lessons Jonah 3: 1-5, 10 1 Then the...

I’m currently visiting family in Oklahoma, the state that passed a law last year that made it illegal for judges to rule using Sharia instead of State and Federal law.  (Because clearly that’s where...

Stuck in an airport with my iPad yesterday, I came across this riff by Christian Toto over at Big Government on the success of George Lucas’s Red Tails at the box office: “Red Tails”...

The State of the Union address was a bit of a disappointment to the punditry. But of course, the President’s message wasn’t meant for them. There’s probably no better example of what I mean...

It’s went pretty much unnoticed because of the rise of Mordor Gingrich, but on Saturday Herman Cain briefly reentered the Republican primary spotlight. It was certainly as much of a farce as his actual...

Yesterday I asked if anyone would be willing to assist me in a journey to see how I might reconcile my lack of belief with my desire for belief. Over the next few months...

As I’ve discussed in greater detail here, I am a non-believer that has always been drawn toward the idea of faith.  As I get longer in the tooth I find it harder and harder...

The good and just Burt Likko wrote a post today on the controversy surrounding Newt Gingrich’s Food-Stamp President hubbub from last Monday night. Coincidently, this was posted on the heels of a post of...

Credit where credit’s due: Newt Gingrich knows how to play a room. On the evening of Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the state of South Carolina, Newt doubled down on his earlier comments...

Responding to BlaiseP’s post on Ta-Nehisi Coates’s recent Atlantic cover story, Somni451 raised a question about the League’s diversity: This post reminded me a question I’ve been meaning to ask for a while. What...

Yeah, sure, it’s yet another post about Ron Paul.  (Perhaps you’ve heard of him?) But today’s post by Ta-Nehisi Coates is so much more than that.  It’s about the complex emotions that surround his...

If you like offensive shoot outs and you’re not watching the Rose Bowl now, you really should.  At this rate someone’s going to win 102-101.

Surprisingly (to me, anyway), I got a fair amount of pushback from my post on the signed Loyalty Oath that the Virginia GOP now requires in order to vote in its primary. This pushback...

I had an odd ethical dilemma this week, that – since it was attached to governmental oversight and regulation – I thought I might share with you. Part of what my company does is...

Oy.  In what will surely generate some interesting mental gymnastics from Koz and others attempting to explain how awesome this idea is/is really done more by liberals, the Virginia GOP willow require voters to...

I’m a big enough man to admit it: I was wrong about Ron Paul. Oh, not that he shouldn’t be president. I still believe that; in fact, I believe that even more now than...