by Michael Ruffin | Jun 8, 2010 | Opinion
Unless you choose to live as a hermit, which is understandable, or choose to pay absolutely no attention to baseball, which is not, then you have heard about the perfect game that wasn’t. In a game played between the Detroit Tigers and the Cleveland Indians on...
by Michael Ruffin | May 31, 2010 | Opinion
Memorial Day is here. Independence Day follows close behind. I confess that I have spent quite a bit of time pondering patriotism’s too frequent mutation into nationalism and jingoism under the influence of fear, arrogance and xenophobia. I am still troubled by...
by Michael Ruffin | May 17, 2010 | Opinion
I’m going to talk about the trouble I have with God. You might expect that I am going to talk about the trouble with believing in God when God cannot be experienced in any way that would pass laboratory scrutiny. Well: 1. Either there is a God or there is not....
by Michael Ruffin | Feb 7, 2010 | Opinion
When 10 percent of Americans are unemployed and many more live in daily fear of losing their jobs, people will say that if you have a job – any job – you should be grateful you can pay the bills. This is no time, they will say, to get idealistic and think about your...
by Michael Ruffin | Dec 22, 2009 | Opinion
I am at times afflicted with chronic lyricosis, which is, on the off chance you have not heard of it, a malady characterized by the habitual misunderstanding of song lyrics. When I was a child, I thought the church song that affirmed “Whosoever surely meaneth...
