Rabe Ramblings

The popular belief today, fostered by many in the scientific community who have a vested interest in bolstering their prestige, is that scie...

Attacks on Intelligent Design often charge that the theory is "unfalsifiable" and thus unscientific. Aside from the fact that thi...

...and Merry Christmas!

A lot is being made about the recent intelligent design (ID) case in Dover, PA, where a federal judge ruled that including intelligent desig...

I've written here in the past about my belief in the obvious superiority of David Letterman over Jay Leno. To my mind, there's just...

I've been sick for much of the week with a fever and sore throat, which is why I've been scarce around here the last few days. While...

As faithful reader Plumtree points out to me by email, this is about the time each year when I like to take the opportunity to observe that ...

The events of the other day have raised a question in my mind that I'm surprised I haven't had before: Why do we execute people in t...

After several false starts with skittish scammers who got scared and ran, Brian at Terrible Swift Word finally has some African email scamm...

My television was out for over a month after Hurricane Wilma (because of a blown-over dish), so I hadn't seen much of the news until vac...

I love Christmas as much as anyone. And I've always made it a point to specifically wish people "Merry Christmas." I think t...

I should've mentioned that we're on vacation this week, which means things will continue to be pretty quiet here until next Monday. ...

Slate magazine takes a withering, hilarious look at the putrid "Left Behind" straight-to-video films. The sad thing is, the arti...

The fever-Left Mother Jones magazine has carefully charted the constellations of the ominous and dark-hearted universe of the "religio...

Joe Carter over at the evangelical outpost has been discussing the most overrated films of all time. While I'm not equipped to make th...

Doug Wilson has a pungent, counterintuitive take on celebrating Christmas: ...[D]o not fall for the lie that the spirit of Christmas is an ...

It has recently occured to me that the notion of "owning property" in America is now largely an illusion. I have to replace a fenc...

Only a college professor could write something this pretentiously ridiculous: Star Wars Episodes I-VI--the greatest postmodern art film ever...

Fortunately, the tropical storm took a turn away from South Florida late Saturday night, leaving us in the clear. After last month, people ...

In the latest forecast track for the newly-(re) minted Tropical Storm Gamma, it appears that the dead center of the projection cone runs rou...