Jul 26 2008
I suppose I should have posted on this some time ago, but I was waiting to read someone else on the topic. Alas, while there have been many excellent reviews of the latest Batman movie, The Dark Knight, I’ve yet to read one making the point I think is most important to make about the [...]
Jul 26 2008
If you read this blog in an RSS Reader, you’ll need to click over and view the actual site: I’ve changed the banner at the top. Formerly, I was using a cropping from a painting depicting Martin Luther nailing his 95 Theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany. While there is [...]
Jul 24 2008
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. – Proverbs 16:18
Jul 24 2008
I mean, if there are two Americas, why not have a family for each one, right?
Jul 20 2008
In Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, he cites the requirement of leisure for the good life, the life of contemplation and virtue. Since then various and sundry scholars have further explored this idea, examining the relationship between a life of abundant means and the opportunity for magnanimity of thought and deed. William F. Buckley may be the [...]
Jul 10 2008
Of course, I’m being sarcastic, but still: “It’s not ‘jitters,’ because sometimes the telltale inning is the eighth and not the ninth,” Cooper insisted when the subject of Scott Linebrink and the veteran’s ninth-inning problems came up. “In no way, shape or form are we down on him or lack confidence with him.” They just [...]
Jul 08 2008
After a brief theological discussion with two of my roommates last night, I was reminded that discussions of what is “necessary to be saved†always strike me as odd. What, exactly, are we trying to accomplish by determining precisely what is needed for salvation. It seems pretty clear in the Gospel: “For God so loved [...]
Jul 08 2008
Rasmussen reports that Congress’ approval rating is at 9%, a historic low. The disapproval is strongest among voters who do not identify with either party. Now, it seems, could be the perfect opportunity for my plans to revive the Federalist Party. It would be an eminently conservative party – in the truest, original sense of [...]
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