Follow @Ryan_Kantor Thursday, December 5th, fast food workers at the Smithsonian in Washington D.C. walked off the job to protest for a higher minimum wage. They are pushing politicians to more than double the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $15.00. Democratic lawmakers are in turn pushing President Obama to sign an executive order to … Continue reading
Follow @Ryan_Kantor When popular political commentator, Bill O’Rielly, published Killing Kennedy and Killing Lincoln, I didn’t rush out to get my copy. However, when the former history teacher and Harvard graduate published Killing Jesus: A History, I bit and I’m glad I did. Bill O’Rielly and Martin Dugard begin the book with a swift punch to the gut as … Continue reading
In a fairly exciting development, an old college friend and current college football player offered to contribute to the blog. I quickly took him up on the offer. I expect he’ll bring a unique perspective. A brief bio is below. If you’re a regular reader, you’ll want to peruse quickly. His first article on why … Continue reading
Ages ago, I wrote two posts that sparked a lively debate. The first, a repudiation of Moral Relativism, the second a follow-up with a real life example from CNN. In 2011, there was a debate on the topic “are there objective morals without God.” Shockingly (one debater is a “militant atheist”) it takes place at Notre … Continue reading
If you’ve been on the site lately you may have noticed that I’ve changed up the look of the right sidebars. I’ve removed the tag cloud (let me know if anyone cares) and replaced it with Amazon links to “Recommended Reading” and “Book of the Month.” The Recommended Reading is a book by my very … Continue reading
News broke earlier this week that the Sacramento Kings are working to sell the team and move to Seattle, where they would change their name to the Seattle Supersonics. The New Orleans Hornets have announced they will play next season as the Pelicans, and will do so with some pretty cool designs. Attention now turns … Continue reading
If you’ve been following this blog from the start, you remember the days of Tommy D’s epic contributions. His growing interest in cinema led him to break away and start his own movie blog, and then become a contributor on The Artifice. In addition to moving away from this blog, he also moved to L.A. and … Continue reading
Before I begin, I would like to send my thoughts and prayers to victims of the tragic movie theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado. This is by no means a movie blog, and thus this post is far from a movie review–not to say this blog is foreign to a good movie review or two. However, as The … Continue reading
Merry Christmas to all my blog subscribers, and thank you for reading this year. Christmas is a day to remember the birth of Jesus Christ, fully God and fully human. Today we thank God for his gift of the Christ child, spend time with family, and maybe watch some basketball, as the NBA finally started … Continue reading
You may notice that the URL above is different, as I just purchased RyanKantor.com. If you go to the old URL (RyansRantsandTommysTirades.Wordpress.com) it’ll just redirect you here, so no harm done. Tommy has spun off his own blog about movies, so I thank him for helping me get started, and getting some traction on this … Continue reading
