* Temporarily renamed in honor of the Nativity Fast, about which Mystagogy has some more information.
Category: Attitude
Putting “Christ” in “Black Friday.”
Social conservatives will soon be “trying to take Christmas back” or to “put Christ in Christmas.” Perhaps they’ll be calling, again, for boycotts of stores that don’t say “Merry Christmas.”
I’ll not be joining them. Because it isn’t “the Christmas season.” Continue reading “Putting “Christ” in “Black Friday.””
Tofu Tidbits* 11/16/11
* Temporarily renamed in honor of the Nativity Fast, about which Mystagogy has some more information.
Tasty Tidbits 11/14/11
Tasty Tidbits, Veterans Day 2011
- What humans are for.
- Egalitarianism.
- Penn State.
- Baptist orthopathy.
- What’s wrong with this picture?
Tasty Tidbits 11/9/11
- JHK’s four-step plan for America.
- Enemies within.
- Better to fall apart?
- A Bureaucratic mind looks at TBTF.
- Joe Frazier.
Tasty Tidbits 11/7/11
- What’s Distinctive About America?
- Carrying coal to Newcastle.
- Pray for Ken Myers.
- Knowing and Thinking.
Notes from a place worth caring about
James Howard Kunstler, traveling abroad, managed on Monday only a feeble notice that his weekly blog (which I shall euphemistically call “CFN”) would be delayed. It came on Tuesday, bearing the unpromising caption “Jet-Lagged and Ragged.”
I glanced, my jaw dropped, I thought I’d marked it for returning later, but I forgot it for a bit.
I wish Kunstler, a man in the prime of life (i.e., about my age) no health-endangering problems, but if this is how he writes jet-lagged and ragged, I’ll gladly glean the fruits of his ill-health: Continue reading “Notes from a place worth caring about”
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.”
War on Stuff
Continue reading “War on Stuff”