Why all the filibusters?

Senate Republicans have become filibuster-crazy, and it's not too hard to figure out why.

A majority of senators -- and a majority of the American people -- want certain things enacted that the Republicans oppose. So, the GOPers stage filibusters to block up-and-down votes on those matters.

Kevin Drum offers further explanation here.

What about us middleborns?

The Rockford Rascal is the middlest of Ma and Pa Rascal's five children and as such finds himself in sympathy with the question raised by Kevin Drum.

Southerners are different from the rest of us

At least, that's the way a lot of them see it, which sort of verifies it, right?

Kevin Drum touches on the subject here.

Do today's colleges secularize students?

It's an article of faith (so to speak) among conservatives that the secular humanists who dominate the faculties at colleges and universities these days are turning the students away from religion.

But the truth of the matter, as Kevin Drum notes here, is something else.

The War Prayer

Mark Twain's "The War Prayer," written in 1904, has been made into a video by Washington Monthly publisher Markos Kounalakis, with illustrations by Akis Dimitrakopoulos and narration by Peter Coyote, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and Erik Bauersfeld.

It runs about 15 minutes and is well worth the time.

(Hat-tip to Kevin Drum of PoliticalAnimal)