Adventus

"I would like to say 'This book is written to the glory of God', but nowadays this would be the trick of a cheat, i.e., it would not be correctly understood."--Ludwig Wittgenstein

"Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards."--Soren Kierkegaard

Thursday, January 31, 2013

Meanwhile, in the agora....

Growing up around guns and owning them as an adult affords a person memories and experiences that strangers to guns may have trouble ...

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

It's The Best There Is

Remington 750 semiautomatic hunting rifle. Remington's marketing material promises "super-fast cycling.... Rapid follow-ups are ...

Monday, January 28, 2013

And who will write love songs for you?

Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government's confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If th...

Friday, January 25, 2013

Trampling on the grass

One of the interesting quandaries of First Presbyterian Church (and churches everywhere which worry about what their attendance figures m...

Holy, holy, holy....

This story is interesting to me in part because it represents in microcosm the enduring problem of change. It seems First Presbyterian C...

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Ted Poe may actually be stupider than Louie Gohmert

I was teaching a class and we got off on the topic of school shootings. A student offered that he'd just gotten an e-mail about a sho...

Thursday, January 17, 2013

We're mighty reckless....

Greg Abbott needs to put a sock in it : [Texas] Attorney General Greg Abbott Wednesday launched a Google web ad campaign inviting New ...

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Yeehaw!

The Texas Legislature only meets for 6 months every two years, according to our state constitution. This is why: Representative Dan F...

Monday, January 14, 2013

Time to get serious

Read this op-ed carefully, and there are more than a few problems with it: When I was about to start eighth grade, my father almost sh...

Saturday, January 12, 2013

"Bang, you're dead"

The first bit of positive news is that David Keene, the President of the NRA, sounds much more rational than Wayne LaPierre. Why is tha...

Friday, January 11, 2013

Keeping the elephants away

The guy on the radio insisted, over and over again, that no school with an armed guard had ever suffered an armed attack. Except at Co...

Thursday, January 10, 2013

A Day in the Life

I was at the neighborhood pharmacy today, waiting to pick up a prescription. There on the counter was a large index sized card covered in...

Lighting up

Part of this is me; part of this is what's going on. Advocates on both sides of the gun control debate are prepared to make a lot ...

Sunday, January 06, 2013

In the days of thy youth....

Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no ...

Friday, January 04, 2013

Ghostbusters!

So I'm on my hobby horse about cliches we can do without. Thinks like "Pain is just weakness leaving the body." That o...

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