Rabe Ramblings

I was finally able to watch Alexandra Pelosi's much-talked about HBO documentary "Friends of God" on Tivo last night. The fi...

Doug Wilson, in an unrelated context , supplies an excellent analogy to my conversation with the conspiracy theorist: [It] reminds me of an ...

ME: So you believe President Bush had something to do with 9/11? HIM: Yes, he had at least something to do with it. Too much doesn't ad...

Someone sharing my name does a pictorial comparison of Cardinals fans versus Yankees fans. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (one of the few remaining ...

For Christmas this year, my lovely wife gave me an XM Satellite Radio, which may be the coolest gift I've ever received. Frankly, I ne...

Okay, the baseball stuff has pretty much killed traffic here this week, so we'll change gears. To soccer! Here's something that eve...

Most discussions about the baseball Hall of Fame are devoid of reason and logic. Few topics of discourse are decided ultimately on "gu...

In any case, it’s unfortunate that the McGwire controversy will taint the elections of Ripken and Gwynn, two of the game’s undisputed good g...

Later today, the 2006 National Baseball Hall of Fame elections will be announced. There is no doubt that Cal Ripken Jr. and Tony Gwynn will...

Though I disagreed with him a little bit on the homeschooling issue, I want to make something perfectly clear: Tim Challies is the finest hu...

In watching the Larry King interview from 1999 with Gerald Ford , another exchange struck me that pointed to Ford's relative cluelessnes...

Okay, can somebody please put Gerald Ford in the ground already? He died like two months ago or something. I'm all for formal state fu...

I've found myself a bit surprised at the level of pomp and circumstance surrounding the funeral of former president Gerald Ford over the...

It's just.... wrong , but with the passing of former president Gerald Ford, I've only been able to think of this today, from Saturd...

Okay, this may seem a bit sad, but I spent nearly all of my Christmas weekend transfixed by this Homestar Runner fellow (and his friends) t...

It's 82 degrees here in South Florida right now. This is such a weird place to live. Merry Christmas, everybody.

I just discovered, in browsing the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's website, the distressing news that the very first radio station I ever wor...

I've said before that the media silence on the Sandy Berger stolen documents story is utterly amazing. It continues to become even more...

In death he became a punchline on Leno. In life, he was a devoted husband taking care of his mentally deteriorating wife. The St. Louis Po...

After having taken a little haitus, let's return to the homeschooling discussion that Tim Challies initiated the other day which sent ...