It’s a tough year to be a Notre Dame fan. Now, I know that I won’t get any sympathy from most people because Notre Dame, like the Yankees, has enjoyed a lot of success over the years. It also enjoys the benefits of that success in the form of a TV deal and virtually unlimited access to alumni support. However, the team has yet to win a game this year, and, at times, has looked like a really bad Division II team. All that said, it seems a little premature to be calling for head Coach Charlie Weis’ head on a platter.
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I’ve long argued that the mainstream media has done a tremendous disservice to its audiences by lumping large religious groups into single categories. The term “evangelical Christians” is only slightly less heterogeneous than “African-Americans” when it comes to any attempt to characterize either group’s collective attitudes or opinions about anything. The fact that the media still quotes Jim Dobson or Pat Robertson as the definitive spokesmen for all evangelical Christians makes about as much sense as quoting Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton as the definitive spokesmen for African-Americans. (more…)

It seems odd to have remembrances of 9/11 every year since it happened. It’s almost like Americans feel some sort of obligation to commemorate the day, but we lack the historical context to really understand what we are commemorating.

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