I don't think there are many larger lessons to be found in sports.

The science has changed from ambiguous to near-unanimous... Based on the data I'm now switching sides regarding global warming, from skeptic to convert.

Set aside the many competing explanations of the big bang; something made an entire cosmos out of nothing. It is this realization - that something transcendent started it all - which has hard-science types... using terms like "miracle."

Seek happiness and you may or may not find it; seek grievances and you are guaranteed success.

Instant-doomsday hyperbole caused the world's attention to focus on the hypothetical threat of global warming to the exclusion of environmental menaces that are real, palpable, and awful right now.

Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything.

Peace on earth and mercy mild are still possible. On Christmas Eve, all things are possible.