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Greed is one of the most popular sins, which explains why it inspired so many Bible verses. For example, Luke 12:15 reads, “Life does not consist in an abundance of possessions,” and was clearly written in a time before pinball machines and dirt bikes.

Cussing is a confusing sin because it requires context. When a farmer refers to his donkey as an ass, that is not a cuss. When a farmer refers to his donkey as a piss-soaked fuck trumpet that crawled out of Satan’s rotten shithole, that is a cuss.

Biblical scholars define sloth as “the sinful desire for ease.” I define sloth as a “long monkey.”

Gluttony refers to all manner of overindulgence, including drunkenness, downing a trayful of Communion grape juice shooters, or eating too many Sugar Daddies from the Vacation Bible School treasure chest and suffering a catastrophic sugar crash while reciting the Fruits of the Spirit.

Lust is what happens when the praise band rhythm guitarist wears a head-to-toe Billabong.

Peeing in the pastor’s above-ground pool during the annual youth group summer hootenanny is almost certainly a sin, but not a very popular one. I don’t know anyone who would do that.

Manchin and a group of failed moderate politicians assembled in New Hampshire on Monday to tout No Labels’ 73-page centrist manifesto.

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The U.S. military’s elite special operations command doesn’t want its planes tracked, according to a procurement document.

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If you didn’t know better, you’d think Lloyd Marbet was a dairy farmer or maybe a retired shop teacher. His beard is thick, soft, and gray, his hair pulled back in a small ponytail. In his mid-seventies, he still towers over nearly everyone. His handshake is firm, but there’s nothing menacing about him. He lumbers around like a wise, old hobbling tortoise. We’re standing in the deco lobby of the historic Kiggins Theater in downtown Vancouver, Washington, about to view a screening of Atomic Bamboozle, a remarkable new documentary by filmmaker Jan Haaken that examines the latest push for atomic power and a nuclear “renaissance” in the Pacific Northwest. Lloyd, a Vietnam veteran, is something of an environmental folk hero... Read more

When Balwinder Rana came to this country in 1963, aged sixteen, he didn’t expect things to be as bad as they were for South Asians living in Britain. ‘I was one of only five Asian students studying at Gravesend College in Kent,’ he tells me. ‘I remember very clearly when Enoch Powell made the ‘rivers […]

On this episode of the podcast I speak with Yanis Varoufakis about the role of banks and politicians. Yanis is an economist, politician, author and Secretary-General of MeRA25. He is perhaps best known for his role as the Greek Minister of Finance during the Greek credit crisis. In our discussion we cover some fairly big […]

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Come on, it’s the twenty-first century. I believe in equality between the genders. Or is it equity? Whatever e-word the gals are jabbering about, that’s what I support—100 percent.

Cleaning? I take the living room windows; my wife takes the bedroom windows. I take the closet; she takes the bathroom. I take the kitchen sink; she takes the gutters, basement, and haunted crawl space.

Cooking? Hoo boy, I love to grill. I can’t grill in the winter, but besides that, you can find me outside grilling up enough burgers, brats, and veggies for the whole week, except for the part of spring when it rains. I’m not a huge fan of the humidity in July or August, either, and October is real touch and go in these parts. September and June, though? I’m out there grilling anything and everything, assuming there aren’t any baseball games on the MLB: Every Game Every Night app.

The week started ominously with a French journalist asking me whether the Greeks have turned cold-hearted, alluding to the apparent apathy to the drowning of hundreds of refugees off the coast of the Peloponnese and to the murky role played in this tragedy by our Coastguard. Yes, I replied without a second thought. A population […]

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Humanity has now developed AI algorithms capable of fully decoding a killer bug’s proteins and creating an effective antibiotic. Was there ever any doubt that conglomerates like Amazon would seize upon this opportunity to shrink workplaces along their supply chain where AI predicts a higher probability of unionization? ATHENS – Last week brought a rare good-news […]

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