Author name: Chris

Few things seem to me as frightening as religious people with a cause. We got health care through the House […]

Is there anything in this world, I wonder, as sad and as dangerous as believers without faith? It is an

As the days get shorter, the log pile gets longer. Before much longer, the log pile will begin to get

“Where are the snows of yesteryear?” asked the poet. Well, this week they were lying on our lawn. October snows

It’s Columbus Day weekend and I am not on duty. Why not join the hordes on the highway and go

It’s time for some nature notes, strange and wonderful: wonderful first. I think it was maybe two years ago that

So are we all happy for Rio de Janeiro and the neglected southern continent? Maybe a bit sad for Chicago,

I have already written a couple of times about the diary of George Templeton Strong but one more seems indicated.

Slogans are a substitute for thinking. We hear too many of them these days. One of the most annoying is

It strikes me as bizarre that in this most Christian of countries, we are insisting that health care reform must