An Unlikely Veteran

My father, Hans Bouricius, was born in Delft, The Netherlands, in 1921. When the Netherlands were made part of the greater German Reich in May of 1940, he was nineteen, and about to join the navy. Unfortunately, the Royal Netherlands Navy had just moved to England....

Obama's faith

What is it like to have a president who's extremely intelligent, and whose view of faith is mature, non-fundamentalist, and open? We're about to find out.The fundies are not going to like Obama's simultaneous born-again status and non-dogmatic stance. And...

Cooking With Balls: It's a Good Thing

I recently came across a vividly illustrated cookbook that utilizes a main ingredient of testicles in each of its recipes (the testicles were not human, but once belonged to bulls, calves, lambs, rams, stallions, ostriches and turkeys). It is a refreshingly simple...