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January 2013

January 17, 2013

Heaven and hell, robots with lasers and car-eating vultures

Some Thursday morning links, including: a grammatical datum; X-ray specs and sea monkeys; I brake...

January 15, 2013

Bulletin from the Mad Farmer Liberation Front: Wendell Berry on same-sex marriage

“Condemnation by category is the lowest form of hatred, for it is cold-hearted and abstract,...

January 14, 2013

Junto historians review Revolutionary role-playing games

The "tea party" is often treated mainly as a political movement, but that view quickly...

January 13, 2013

Sunday salmagundi

Shut that refrigerator, you think money grows on trees? ... Two gentlemen from Kentucky with...

January 13, 2013

Sunday favorites

Psalm 146: "The Lord sets the prisoners free; the Lord opens the eyes of the...

January 12, 2013

Two steps toward a more humane world

Two posts from two very different writers on two simple ways to make the world...

January 12, 2013

Smart people saying smart things

Joan Chittister on Job's story and the story of women; Sarah Moon on "the privilege...

January 12, 2013

3 New Tabs

At the top of the blog here, just under that graffiti-ish masthead-y thing, you'll find...

January 11, 2013

The elephant in the room displaces the gorilla

The idiom of choice -- or cliché, if you want to be critical about it...

January 11, 2013

What’s the buzz, tell me what’s happening

Swallowing a tablet is too stark a reminder that caffeine is a drug. Ingesting that...

January 09, 2013

More good news: Another dozen reasons to celebrate

Malala Yousufzai leaves the hospital; Episcopalians and teenagers spoil Westboro's plans; the "Sk8ter Grrls of...

January 08, 2013

Regarding sloth and sloths

Is the deadly sin named after the gentle, slow-moving creature, or is the creature named...

January 07, 2013

2 years ago: Playoffs and rocking chairs

And whenever she gets another memo from Mr. Acme informing her that product-units-per-hour must yet...

January 06, 2013

Your lips say ‘school prayer,’ but your eyes tell me ‘desegregation’

Part of the problem with arguments about "prayer in schools" is that quite often they...

January 06, 2013

‘If we all hold hands and very quietly shout’

If video of a terrific, creepy, God-haunted performance by Nick Cave isn't enough for you,...

January 06, 2013

Sunday favorites

A Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi: "Lord, make me an instrument of your peace....

January 05, 2013

Church & state and ‘beliefs’ that believers don’t care about

Hospitals really aren't looking to hire medical professionals who don't believe in professional medicine. Hiring...

January 05, 2013

2 years ago: ‘Pro-Family’ means anti-families

"When it comes to policies, regulations or legislative proposals that will actually, tangibly help actual,...

January 04, 2013

7 years ago: Broken news and ‘miracles’

"We're Christian people ourselves," one grief-stricken family member said. "We have got — some of...

January 04, 2013

We have our Chloe: Ashley Tisdale joins Left Behind reboot

If I can't have Nic Cage as Nicolae Carpathia in the new Left Behind movie,...

January 03, 2013

Do we have a superstitious belief in widespread superstition?

If it turns out that, in fact, that tens of millions of your potential customers...

January 02, 2013

5 years ago: ‘Before the Internet’

"I find that strangely inspiring and hopeful. We speak words or write them on paper...

January 02, 2013

Mazes & Monsters and the BADD old days: I’m collecting stories of the backlash against Dungeons & Dragons

I want to hear from any of you who played Dungeons & Dragons or any...

January 01, 2013

Chad Michael Murray joins Left Behind reboot

This is potentially exciting news, since Murray playing Buck Williams rules out that part for...

December 2012

December 31, 2012

Top posts of the year, from Chick-fil-A to Happy Meals

Thank you to everyone who visited, read and commented here in 2012. Here are the...

December 31, 2012

‘We send back music’

If I post these links today I can still claim them on my 2012 taxes....

December 30, 2012

Best wishes to Ed Brayton for a full, speedy recovery

Ed Brayton writes the blog Dispatches from the Culture Wars, which I've been enjoying for...

December 30, 2012

12 reasons to be happy

Let's ac-cent-tchu-ate the positive and take a look at reasons to celebrate, including: "All You...

December 30, 2012

Sunday favorites

Philippians 2:3-11: "Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility regard others as...

December 29, 2012

Saturday salmagundi

Leftovers from a slow week: Reading the Bible alphabetically, "Twas the night before Rapture" (not...

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