Monday, November 03, 2008

Somethin's happenin' here....

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Interesting early voter turnout numbers . Florida leads in terms of raw numbers of voters: 4,107,894, which is 52% of the total number of v...
Saturday, November 01, 2008

Deep Thought

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Any discussion of the problems of the poor and middle class is "class warfare". Any discussion of the rich is "free market e...

For All the Saints-2008

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In the German E&R church calendar, this would come not the day after Hallowe'en, but the Last Sunday of Pentecost, and they would ob...
Friday, October 31, 2008

How to Make a Hallowe'en Tree

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(with appropriate apologies to Ray Bradbury)
Thursday, October 30, 2008

Six Flags Over Texas

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Voted tonight. Longest line I've stood in since waiting for a ride at Six Flags when I was a kid. I have never waited an hour in order ...

Dreaming of Paradise

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The morning started, appropriately enough, with paradox. Arrow's Paradox: Trouble first surfaced during the Enlightenment, as Jean-Char...

Power to the People?

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My wife told me about this, so I got curious and went looking on the web this morning. Seems this billboard is prominently displayed on I-1...
Wednesday, October 29, 2008

So priketh hem nature in hir courages

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The majority of men are subjective towards themselves and objective towards all others, terribly objective sometimes--but the real task is i...
Monday, October 27, 2008

Works of Love

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People try to persuade us that the objections against Christianity spring from doubt. That is a complete misunderstanding. The objections ag...
Thursday, October 23, 2008

Meanwhile, off in the weeds....

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Mimi has moved on, but I refuse to be so accomodating. The question of soteriology ( "R U Saved?" ) is a pastoral question and a...

Something's Happening Here...

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Just to say... I am in a "voting location" (at 7:45) this morning, and there is already a line downstairs, of people waiting to vo...
Tuesday, October 21, 2008

R U Saved?

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The question of salvation is the question of the Absolute: Must there be a salvation from Sin without which the human is damned? If there ...

Still Forgetting Reinhold Niebuhr

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A further consequence of modern optimism is a philosophy of history expressed in the idea of progress. Either by a force immanent in nature ...

A small side note

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Massive post on the importance of being Reinhold to come, but just looking at the summary of Arianna Huffington's latest post this morn...
Sunday, October 19, 2008

I read the news today, oh boy....

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Rush Limbaugh: "Secretary Powell says his endorsement is not about race... OK, fine. I am now researching his past endorsements to see ...
Thursday, October 16, 2008

John McCain Speaks: The Joe the Plumber Diaries

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In case you missed the Final Presidential Debate last night, I have excerpts from the transcript for your reading pleasure: But, my friends,...