Right now! Go look S,SW!

Beautiful.

[I wrote this for our family in Christmas '04. I just rediscovered it and thought to post it here, nowthat the shopping season has begun in earnest. I still stand by what I said. I hope you don't mind.]

I anticipate listing my home next year with an actual move some time before the end of summer.

I already know that things look pretty bleak.

I was at a natural foods store today where they had several stands of samples. The produce department offered grapes and apple slices. The bakery tempted customers with morsels of banana nut bread or fudge brownies.

So we're walking along Tremont Street on the way to Cheers, and we pass these parked semis with "Spamalot" painted on the trailers. Turns out that tonight is the last performance in Boston. Also turns out that we have a pair of good tickets.

It was three years ago today that I lost my dad to a heart attack.

Cal printed this piece a few days later.

Post-Election Malaise

We're here for y

Obama? Forget it.

McCain? Yawn.

Here's my vote:

Election

Weatherwax sent me this link.

What Would Jesus Brew?

Did you hear that PETA has asked Ben & Jerry's to begin using human breast milk, rather than cow's milk, in their ice cream?

The proper function of the teacher is determined by the ends of education.

Those ends may be thought to vary from one educational framework to another. Within the context of a vocational school, for instance, the aim is to prepare the student for a career as, say, a dental hygienist. There, the curriculum is ordered after a concern to produce good dental hygienists (e.g., Pyorrhea 101, Modern Flossing: Strategies and Techniques) and the teacher is assessed according to her ability to impart the knowledge and skills for success in such a field.

Perhaps you've seen the news about the 17 mile proton accelerator that is supposed to simulate the conditions of the Big Bang.

My Home Depot special went kaflooey. I'm shopping for a new riding mower and invite opinions.

Anyone know anything about the traditional Snapper rear-engine mowers? Are they as bullet proof as advertised?

The blog section here has been slow, and I figured, hey, nothing livens up the party like a twenty page philosophical treatise!

Someone in our family has a roofing business in NC, and has agreed to put a new roof on a house in PTC for us. He wants to start tomorrow--Sunday.

Have you seen the flap over the current cover of The New Yorker?

This is ripe for parody--perhaps a Door article.

Christian Car Tags

Check out the cover story for this issue of Christianity Today.

God Is Not Dead Yet.

Bo (Who Do You Love?) Diddley died this past week. He was 79.

I heard a tribute to him on A Prairie Home Companion yesterday. The tune composed for him had the line "he put the rock in rock and roll."

Several days ago, we were excited to see a blue grosbeak at our feeders.

"I'm a democrat. Therefore, I believe that global warming is anthropogenic."

I've asked this before, but isn't it rather odd that disagreement over an empirical matter-of-fact claim runs along political party lines?

I see that Ben Stein's Expelled is playing at Tinseltown.

As I understand it, the film is not so much about the Intelligent Design vs. Evolution debate as it is about the tactics of the various gatekeepers in attyempting to shut down and shout down the idea of Intelligent Design.

Two of my grandsons--7 and 3--are visiting. Each is in his first year of organized baseball: one in T-ball, the other in Little League.

Christians believe that Jesus literally rose from the dead. We celebrate Easter because of our belief in this event and its significance for human history.

New York - In the event that Barack Obama secures the Democratic nomination, Hillary Clinton would likely organize a national support group, an anonymous Clinton campaign official told Reuters.

The Pew Forum recently conducted an unusually large survey to get a profile of religion in American life.

Some 78% are professing Christians.

This is a riot.

Huckabee Overstays His Welcome

I really

To my mind, G.K. Chesterton eclipses all other essayists for his elegant wrting style, dry wit (sometimes he is uproariously funny), and penetrating analysis of the issues of his day.

That rhymes.

This looks interesting.

You'll remember Ben Stein from several contexts. I most remember him as the teacher on Ferris Buehler's Day Off: "Anyone? Anyone?"

It's just the wrong question to ask.

[Warning: What was intended as a brief comment kind of got away from me. It's late. I'm sitting in a hospital room, not quite ready for sleep. Here's the result. Rough waters ahead.]