Yesterday, according to CNN, the Supreme Court decided that you may not withhold your name from the police. I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, in the age of terrorism, there is a genuine need to keep track of people. We simply cannot rely on the innate goodness of people, mainly because the evidence increasingly shows that such goodness doesn’t exist to the degree that we thought it did. (Basic Christianity has been teaching this for centuries.)On the other hand, I distrust th...

Hello everyone My name is Franklin Ross. Welcome to an experiment in public discourse. BTW, I really am using a slow computer, at least for now. This is probably a good thing, because I can get pretty wordy if I'm not careful. This way, I'm forced to keep my postings small. I consider myself an evangelical Christian, and the posts will, I hope, reflect that. Thanks for reading. Frank