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November 2016

November 14, 2016

Post Election Apocalypse Podcast and Links

Good Moaning. I have to go to the dentist. I think. I'm pretty sure I...

November 12, 2016

Kitchen Notes from the Frontier of Babylon

[Glrorious Cloud photographed by Alouicious when he was supposed to be paying attention to his...

November 11, 2016

NPR Doesn’t Get It

I just took that NPR "How Big Is Your Bubble" Quiz and according to them,...

November 10, 2016

Disappointed? Join With Me For Cake

Ahh, the sweet smell of blame and recriminations in the morning. I think it was...

November 09, 2016

Three Post Election Take Aways

I've actually been up for three hours but there was some school work to catch...

November 08, 2016

20 Better Things To Do Than Vote

Well, here we are, Election Day 2016. After months and months of waiting, we finally...

November 07, 2016

Election Week Podcast and Links

[Picture of Jesus freaked out about tomorrow just like you are.] Thanks to the time...

November 06, 2016

Is There a Point to Being a Christian?

It's that auspicious time of year. The air is cold and crisp, the mums are...

November 04, 2016

7 Women with Amazing Hair

2016 has been kind of a drag, as almost every year ends up being in...

November 03, 2016

The Curse of the Goat for All of America

Trying to understand this goat curse. Had never heard of it before this week. Even...

October 2016

October 31, 2016

Reformation Day Podcast and Links

We've climbed back on the bus of our usual routine and done up a little...

October 29, 2016

Putting the Happy back into Warrior

Somebody on Facebook yesterday tried to tone police my mean and snarky post about that...

October 21, 2016

7 Stupid Things for Friday

Oh ah, here we are at the end of another long week. Today, dammit, we're...

October 20, 2016

Trump Mansplains Hillary

Second Verse same as the First....sorry, I've been wanting to say that for three whole...

October 17, 2016

Why Yes, She is Holding a Sharp Implement

Good Moaning. Trying to move myself along through the day. And that means doing everything...

October 13, 2016

What’s Wrong with Focus on the Family

One of my children, can't remember which one, rightly observed yesterday that every conversation we...

October 11, 2016

One Easy Simple Way To Become Perfectly Happy

This is a really great article, even if it happens to be at Vox. You...

October 10, 2016

Podcast, Links, Hilarity

Trying to drag myself into the day after being up way too late watching the...

October 09, 2016

Joy for the Donald, Hillary, and Kim K

It was hard to let go of Twitter last night and allow the world roil...

October 08, 2016

Trump: An Icon of the Western Soul

I am going to postpone my much more interesting Kitchen/House Notes Saturday Diversion to say...

October 07, 2016

A Further Response to Allison Benedikt

Not to keep bashing a perishing horse, but I wanted to tease out another thought...

October 06, 2016

A Response to Allison Benedikt

Someone named Allison Benedikt wrote what she calls a "manifesto" over at Slate and I...

October 05, 2016

A Debate and Jesus Always Mash-up

I managed to stay awake through slightly more than half of the debate last night....

September 2016

September 29, 2016

Feminism and Disrespect: Can I Please Have Someone Else to Vote For

I don't really want to think/write about politics at all any more. However, the debate...

September 28, 2016

Vote for Hillary Because She’s a Woman

Matt and I taped a little post debate podcast yesterday, which I hope you will...

September 27, 2016

Area Nation Surprised to Find Itself in Hell

I'm ripping off that great old Onion headline, obviously. Remember? Something about the 911 terrorists...

September 26, 2016

Let’s Make Monday Great Again

We drug ourselves out of a deep and refreshing sleep and put together a nice...

September 25, 2016

A Treatise Against Virtue Signaling

The most difficult thing in the world in the world, I often think, is to...

September 23, 2016

7 Sick Takes

How the mighty, or rather, the moderately functional, have fallen. I have a bad head...

September 20, 2016

Pig Walks Cat

The pressure of thinking a thought is too much for me this morning. I've listened...