I have to admit I followed you a decade ago because my favorite college professor, @rjgranieri.bsky.social , suggested it. I am grateful for both of your minds and presence in times like these.

I hope you have built up your natural resistance to iocane powder.

Does Lawson's Fork Creek count?

And then they blow a DPI call.

He sure didn’t comment on the missed personal foul.

The number of badly missed calls on the last two Panthers’ series is unacceptable.

I proclaim you an honorary Southerner with that one. You may now use "bless your heart" with reckless abandon.

I grew up on Ernie Johnson (Jr. and Sr.), Skip Caray, Pete Van Wieren, Don Sutton, and Joe Simpson. I am convinced part of my love of baseball was having great announcers, even when there was a bad product on the field.

Franklin Graham committed blasphemy at the first inauguration when he said the rain was God’s blessing, conveniently forgetting Jesus said the sun shines on the righteous and the unrighteous, and the rain falls on the righteous and the unrighteous.

Space City's one hour up the road from me
One hour away from as close to the moon as anybody down here is ever gonna be
And somewhere beyond that big white light is where my heart is gone
And somewhere she's wondering what's taking me so long

That is painting with an awfully broad brush. The case for whom? How can you generalize "religious" so broadly? Does Bill Maher's sneering atheism speak for all non-believers, or is there a whole lot more nuance?

I did not say that they did, but many people find or develop their morality through religion, and we should welcome that. John Wesley wrote "there is no holiness but social holiness." And James wrote that "faith without works is dead." That has led to a lot of good works and social progress.

Thank you. As a progressive Christian, it is very frustrating to hear the way religion is discussed in many circles. Love your neighbor and help the poor and oppressed is a pretty good place to start, and we learn that in churches.

It is also blasphemous.

He was charged and tried in federal court.