Excerpts from Interview with Todd Akin’s Doctor

Just ran across some interesting excerpts from an interview with Todd Akin and Bryan Fischer’s doctor: You have to understand that people cannot break their ankles from a legitimate fall. When someone falls legitimately, the body produces hormones that inflate airbags around the ankles. Any fall that results in a broken ankle is clearly an…

Notes as my Daughter Starts High School

Dear School Administration: Please enforce the school dress code. After much searching, I found shorts for my daughter that cover her entire butt–IF they are in the rolled down position. She will be leaving the house with her shorts at an appropriate length. I trust they will stay that way.   Dear Orchestra, Theater, and…

A Mennonite Christmas

(To be sung to the tune of . . . Oh, you can figure it out.) I’m dreaming of a Mennonite Christmas, the kind that all the righteous know, where gifts are handmade or maybe fair trade, and wrapped with last year’s bags and bows. I’m dreaming of a Mennonite Christmas, with every Christmas card…