Trivia, Humor & Satire

By Laurie Baron Russell Moore, the editor-in-chief of Christianity Today, has observed that many MAGA Evangelicals reject Jesus’ doctrine of loving your neighbor and caring for the least among us as “liberal talking points.”  To prove their point, they claim that archeologists recently discovered a lost manuscript in an excavation of an ancient Roman latrine.  Here

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — Sir Richard Branson’s rocket company Virgin Galactic ushered in the era of commercial space flight with its successful launch and landing of the VSS Unity.  It carried one passenger who paid for his ticket and a mother and daughter from Antigua who won the voyage in a lottery.  Although

(Melody: Hit the Road Jack) By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — Try him soon Jack. And don’t let him come back, no more, no more, no more, no more. Make him squirm, Jack. Don’t let him come back no more. Oh Donald, Oh Donald, you pushed the Big Lie. You should have conceded, but you

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — This week Netanyahu’s ultra-nationalist and ultra-Orthodox coalition rescinded the Israeli Supreme Court’s power to overturn governmental laws and policies deemed unreasonable.  Subsequent “reforms” will grant the ruling coalition the right to override Supreme Court decisions and appoint all the judges on the Supreme Court.  Since I have a copy

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — The new African American history curriculum for Florida public schools requires teaching that “slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit” and that acts of black-on-black violence are the equivalent to white collective violence against blacks.  The textbook companies are now scrambling to publish

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — Donald Trump received a letter from Jack Smith informing him that he is a target of the federal investigation into election inference in the 2020 presidential election.  He is also facing a probable indictment from Fani Willis in Georgia later in the summer.  Ever the savvy businessman, Trump is

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — Ted Cruz has condemned the film Barbie for “pushing Chinese propaganda” because its trailer features a map with dashes around areas in the South China Sea which China claims belong to it. Initially, I dismissed his accusation as the ravings of a paranoid reactionary since that characterizes most of