Archive for March, 2007
Saturday, March 31st, 2007
READER’S VIEW: Clinton did worse on firing U.S. attorneys
worth remembering
(tags: politics Democratic-insanity Republican-knavery)
Nobody Remembers Grunge
And Metallica are girls next to Iron Maiden
(tags: music)
Immigration: The Human Cost | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
totally hysterical
(tags: immigration humor sarcasm video)
Eliza Dushku’s Los Angeles – Boston.com
I get nostalgic for TV actors and actresses I haven’t seen in [...]
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Saturday, March 31st, 2007
Mrs. Hornesdotorgslashmark has informed me that my template is evil. I realize now I should have snagged a different template before Jandy grabbed it, but now it is too late because nothing is more tacky in blogdom, I think, than taking the template of someone on your blogroll. The problem is that I [...]
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Saturday, March 31st, 2007
OK, unlike Ms. Schlafly, for whom I have great respect, I’m not bothered in principle about letting Mexican truckers on our highways. I can think of a host of complications which I hope the Bush Administration was concerned about. But in principle I think the greater freedom we allow for people to travel and [...]
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Friday, March 30th, 2007
NEWS BATMAN LANDS BUFFY?
Yes, let this be true.
(tags: movies batman buffy)
Federal Vision on the defensive
excellent
(tags: fv/npp-smear)
Ego, Repentance, and the Federal Vision « Green Baggins
If a man is a fool to give up his soul in exchange for the whole world, what sort of idiot would he be who made the exchange merely to “gain the [...]
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Friday, March 30th, 2007
In celebration of the exquisite pleasure of learning about the international market for ethanol while listening to NPR while driving a few children from school to various places, I think I will post some links from the Cato Institute:
Ethanol Makes Gasoline Coslier, Dirtier
Push Ethanol Off the Dole
Ethanol Keeps ADM Drunk On Tax Dollars
Archer Daniels Midland: [...]
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Friday, March 30th, 2007
The Hugo finalists are announced. Looking at the categories, it just now hit me that the genre that is probably not the most popular in books quite dominates the movies….
If V for Vendetta wins anything, I will be sure to denounce the Hugo awards here.
I haven’t seen any of the Dr. Who stuff. Anyone have [...]
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Friday, March 30th, 2007
When I last wrote on the Heidelberg Catechism, I concluded with an observation about my own Presbyterian doctrinal heritage: “People often claim the Westminster Confession and Catechisms are substantially different on this point, but that is a myth.”
Like the Heidelberg Catechism, the Westminster Catechisms teach the persons catechized to regard themselves as Christians and chosen [...]
Posted in Bible & Theology | 4 Comments »
Thursday, March 29th, 2007
Apple should pull the plug on the iPhone – MarketWatch
I doubt it, but worth considering
(tags: apple phone)
The Dawn Patrol: Last Kiss
Could Jesus be blindsided?
(tags: theology christology)
Theories of Eldership: Four positions on ecclesiastical office
Don’t often agree with Lee, but I think this is worthwhile
(tags: church polity bible presbyterianism)
Evidence for 3office view on PCA BoCO
Despite being a [...]
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Thursday, March 29th, 2007
Well, in many ways as decrepit as ever. And still not over my cold. But, for the first time in a long, long time, I am binging on fiction. Several books at once without losing interest in any of them.
And I haven’t updated the side bar yet, so you’ll have to read [...]
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Thursday, March 29th, 2007
See here for the link. I mention it because I think sometimes a pastor or a church governing board needs a concrete piece of evidence to see how something can help a church website….
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Thursday, March 29th, 2007
Regarding the topic of this post I made:
Response by Freepers
Batesline analyzes and provides quotes
Losing credibility and influence
This one is rude but I laughed out loud
There are more, but I’m probably already pushing the edge of the envelope by linking blogs I don’t know much about. I’ll do some more Dobson-Thomas links later.
But I have [...]
Posted in Bible & Theology, culture & value, political-economy | 2 Comments »
Thursday, March 29th, 2007
At the heart of the reforms lies the classical liberal tax theory according to which lower taxes translates into increased tax revenues. Therefore, it is an interesting historic irony that Russia, a country where the socialist creed reigned strong still very recently, has now been converted into the international showcase of economic liberalism. In America [...]
Posted in culture & value, political-economy | 4 Comments »
Thursday, March 29th, 2007
just look at the stupid spokesmen he gives us. Since I’ve been getting all nostalgic about the Reagan era, I suppose I should admit to the aspects that I wish would die more quietly.
If Fred Thompson runs and does well and simply demonstrates that a broadcast center in Colorado is not in charge of [...]
Posted in Bible & Theology, culture & value | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
americanrespect.com-An Urgent Call for a New World Vision
(tags: war terrorism)
Great comments on Presbyterian baptism
(tags: baptism theology church)
Thousands March for Total Abortion Ban in Poland
(tags: news abortion Poland)
Poles March to Demand Total Abortion Ban – Forbes.com
Associated Press report
(tags: abortion news Poland)
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Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
Apparently not. At least not from this rescue party.
This is a three way interview between Al Mohler a prominant and well-spoken calvinistic Southern Baptist, John Piper, another Baptist (nonSBC) who proves himself a gentleman toward Wright early on, and Lig Duncan, one of the leading PCA Purgists and a great preacher.
They all have gifts, but [...]
Posted in Bible & Theology | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, March 27th, 2007
New Zealand schoolgirls find there’s no C in Ribena
Lab project exposes fraud
(tags: advertising deceit kids)
Writer given suspended sentence, fined for plagiarising his own novel
Strange
(tags: fiction writing Peru totalitarianism)
Invade Mars, Kill Their Leaders, and Convert Them to Edison
Wow, a pro-American sequel to H G Well’s classic
(tags: fiction scifi war)
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Tuesday, March 27th, 2007
Pro and Con.
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Tuesday, March 27th, 2007
but they’re wrong.
For instance, it never occurred to me in my wildest dystopian dream that I would ever read the following defense of government action, outside of a libertarian novel:
“No court,” said Solicitor General Paul Clement in his brief, has “ever recognized a constitutional right against retaliation . . . in the context of property [...]
Posted in culture & value, political-economy | 1 Comment »
Monday, March 26th, 2007
NYT: New data on the problems of “multitasking”
Confirmation it is a myth
(tags: gtd)
Garrett Craw and sermon length
(tags: liturgy sermons)
Metroblogging Vienna: The top 25 Vienna Legends: #8 / Cappuccino!
The alleged origin of the drink
(tags: history mythology coffee)
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Monday, March 26th, 2007
We must make the building of a free society once more an intellectual adventure, a deed of courage. What we lack is a liberal Utopia, a programme which seems neither a mere defence of things as they are nor a diluted kind of socialism, but a truly liberal radicalism which does not spare the susceptibility [...]
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