Lines In The Sand

And when we draw

And when we draw lines in the sand with regard to certain basic things that are vital to our interest and to the interest of democracy and our friends around the world, we have to be willing to back that up Fred Thompson

I have a lot

I have a lot of friends and family that have suffered because of the church’s judgment; my best friend in the world is gay. I felt a lot of people around me drawing lines in the sand, and that year I decided: I don’t want to draw lines and have to be on one side … Read more

…where were answers to

…where were answers to the truly deep questions? Religion promised those, though always in vague terms, while retreating from one line in the sand to the next. Don’t look past this boundary, they told Galileo, then Hutton, Darwin, Von Neumann, and Crick, always retreating with great dignity before the latest scientific advance, then drawing the … Read more

We all have to

We all have to pick our battles. You’ve got to draw a line in the sand and stand firm. And it’s this squishiness that’s really the enemy, like, Well, I don’t know, it’s kind of OK but I kind of feel guilty, and I kind of want a bran muffin, I don’t know, and I’m … Read more