Rabe Ramblings

In the wake of Katrina's visit to South Florida last week, I saw little hints of lawlessness in the hours immediately following the stor...

I think this kind of thing might be the reason people keep shooting them.

I'm not overly concerned about rap warfare. Though it's impolite to say, I suspect that rappers killing one another off probably pr...

It seems that the worst has passed for my part of Broward County. We had very high winds and lots of downed trees nearby. Unfortunately, t...

It looks like we've got another one of these hurricanes coming through (though it seems like the four from last year only just left), an...

Albert Mohler , who's credentials as a conservative Christian culture warrior are beyond question, weighs in on the Pat Robertson fiasco...

Dear Pat , For the love of all that is holy, would you please shut your incessant pie-hole? Thank you. Signed, The Entire Christian World

So here's what you do. This works best if you have one of those remote controls with a button that allows you to switch back and forth ...

I finally, belatedly got around to reading Moneyball by Michael Lewis this week. Bottom line: easily one of the five greatest baseball boo...

This guy is the reason that the death penalty is not only acceptable, but a moral neccessity . There's only one viable viewpoint here....

National Review summarizes an amazing and under-reported story about Richard von Sternberg, a widely-respected biologist who holds PhDs in ...

How can we ever hope to have peace in the Middle East when we can't ever even seem to keep Sammy Hagar and Van Halen together ?

I just got through level 11 (with a score of 1520) in the heroin-like geometry game before I finally had to quit to forestall a nervous br...

While it may come as a suprise to some who visit here on a regular basis, manners are actually a big deal to me. I have an abiding dislike ...

I've never been a big Roger Ebert fan. I always felt Siskel was better, and more important, funnier. But Ebert, in his review of the n...

Barbara Bel Geddes, who played "Miss Ellie" on the hit 80's prime time soap opera "Dallas," has died . Which brings...

I somehow missed this astounding quote from Mario Cuomo over the weekend, appearing on "Meet the Press." Strangely enough, he was...

President Bush signed a bill the other day extending daylight-savings time for another month, adding three more weeks to the beginning of i...

I was saddened to hear this morning of the death of Peter Jennings over the weekend. It did not come as a suprise, since he never again app...

The liberal Slate fleshes out what I was saying last week: Bill Frist is a closet pro-choicer. Writes William Saletan (himself no pro-lifer...