- Ecumenical chastity.
- Vatican steps in a steaming pile.
- Easy cases, good law.
- Timeo Danaos
Month: October 2011
Tasty Tidbits 10/24/11
- Rednecks in the Senate.
- Grudging respect.
- Pushing patriarchy and parturition.
- An atheist loses his faith …
- … and a Mormon Ms. loses her “orthodoxy.”
- Meanwhile, Christians carry on.
Sunday Respite
Yesterday, the cold rainy weather went away. So when not singing one of three Church services or raking leaves, I went for a bike ride.
And thus it came to pass you almost got nothing today. But then I thought “why shouldn’t I make everybody feel bad about wasting their life by showing them what Lafayette’s Chaconne Klaverenga has done with just 18 years thus far?”:
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Bon appetit!
Having become tedious even to myself, I’m Tweeting more, blogging less. View this in a browser instead of an RSS feeder to see Tweets at upper right.
I also have some succinct standing advice on recurring themes. Maybe if I link to it, I’ll blog less obsessively about it.
Tasty Tidbits 10/22/11
- If Philosophers Were Cooks.
- A splendid rant against Tea Party slanders of OWS.
- Imagine more interviews went like this.
- Wanted: Gullible religionists; must be willing to sell soul.
- A whack to the OWS ego.
- We didn’t start the fire …
- But we’ll toast our own over it.
- Pure fun.
Pumpkin Pecan custard: Rapturously good.
Relying on the end of the world, as predicted yet again by Harold Camping, I enjoyed some Culver’s Flavor of the Day, Pumpkin Pecan. Continue reading “Pumpkin Pecan custard: Rapturously good.”
Tasty Tidbits 10/21/11
- Mormon Potpourri.
- Return of Distributism.
- What holds us together?
- Are Architects blind?!
- An aging poem.
- David Pogue belatedly discovers Dropbox.
- Cutting God down to size.
Tasty Tidbits 10/20/11
- The Left is suddenly aghast at heterodoxy.
- BHO’s lawless prosecution of dubious war.
- Carpet-bombing platitudes.
- Didja hear the one about the gay legal alien lawncare worker?
- Stories versus real life.
- Fire from heaven.
Slim Pickin’s 10/19/11
- Single-sex education.
- A provincial and imperious NYT editorial.
Fish’s Formulation Foot-Faults
The New York Times’ Stanley Fish also takes up the Hosanna-Tabor case, argued last week in the Supreme Court, and disappoints in doing so.
It’s not so much that he gets the answer wrong – I’m not sure he does, because I’m not sure what his answer is – as that he falls for sloppy formulation of the question and in so doing misinforms and muddies the water. Continue reading “Fish’s Formulation Foot-Faults”
Tasty Tidbits 10/18/11
- Cellar Dwellers.
- Collective Decision-Paralysis.
- Bad theology and bad politics.
- School Reform and Class Warfare.
- Malevolent immortals.
- Cutting to the Chase.
Tipsy Teetotaler ن 