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

Monday, July 14, 2014

You got your chocolate in my peanut butter!

It's an otherwise busy week in which I won't get much done, so I might as well let this go; it may be the last thing I post for a...

Thursday, July 10, 2014

"I'm not sure what it means...."

Because sometimes you need a buddy.... This is fascinating. It may even make me change my attitude toward Burwell. Then again, it ...

Wednesday, July 09, 2014

MORE COWBELL!!!!

It seems the President, in Poe's felicitous phrase, is trying to out-Herod Herod. According to Salon, Obama has done nothing but ...

Tuesday, July 08, 2014

FOOD FIGHT!!!!!

This is sure to provoke much flinging of poo: If your idea of God is not one that most theistic traditions would recognize, you’re not ...

Christmas in July--for lawyers

Mmmmm....cooked goose! I don't mean to make a fetish of the "corporate veil" problem that I think Burwell sets up , but...

Friday, July 04, 2014

"I do not think that word means what you think it means."

Freedom's just another word for fireworks on the 4th! As long as no one has a religious objection.... I saw this, but didn'...

Thursday, July 03, 2014

"....makes the world go around...."

Last in a series, I promise; at this point I'm just cleaning off the desk, so to speak. I'm still ruminating on this, but it ...

Congratulations, you closely held corporations! The Kingdom of Heaven is yours, too!

God's domain belongs to the closely-held corporation! And it can treat you the way it wants! There is some concern, well-placed I...

All About Eve

So now Burwell is all about recreational sex and "consequence free sex." But only where women are concerned. According to ...

Wednesday, July 02, 2014

The More Things Change, Dept.

When George Wallace declared "Segregation now; segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!", no white church that I know of in A...

Welcome to the Monkeyhouse

The value of the internet is that you can get information like this (originally on Religion Dispatches , where the comments were much le...

Mr. Plow will gladly take your money....

Mr. Plow will gladly take your money while still refusing to shovel your driveway. NTodd (no surprise) is right, this is important :...

Tuesday, July 01, 2014

Cheer up, it could be worse!

Because: why not? No. Burwell v. Hobby Lobby did not shift the tectonic plates of America, nor shatter the foundations of religio...

Monday, June 30, 2014

Meanwhile, back with the 1%

I dunno; because this opinion belongs in a comic book? By now tout le monde knows that the Supremes have ruled in Burwell (nee Sebel...

The Thing Stands Mute

The problem here is, you have to do extensive reading. I don't mean that as a "problem" which is too great a burden; I ju...

Sunday, June 29, 2014

The Thing Speaks for Itself

Never argue with a fool.... Katrina Van den Heuvel v. Bill Kristol: “A Million Iraqis have been displaced," Heuvel said. "...

Wednesday, June 25, 2014

"Where's my hasenpfeffer?!"

I grew up on Looney Tunes. Born 10 years after the last of the best of them were made, mostly what I got from them were cultural referen...

O, Freedom

I was 9 years old during the Summer of Freedom in Mississippi. I might have learned the mnemonic to spell the state's name by then (...

Tuesday, June 24, 2014

The Wild Goose Chase

So Bill Maher talked to Jon Stewart last night (I was going to say "betrayed his stupidity again," but that would tip my hand to...

Where have all the flowers gone?

We are fifty years after "Freedom Summer" in Mississippi this summer. And the Roberts court has declared, as Charlie Pierce ...

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