- Privacy is an illusion.
- Prisoner call centers?
- Principle, anthropic.
- Promises, promises!
- Probably couldn’t find a “Pr” word.
* Temporarily renamed in honor of the Nativity Fast, about which Mystagogy has some more information.
Category: Damn rackets
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.””
Tasty Tidbits, Veterans Day 2011
- What humans are for.
- Egalitarianism.
- Penn State.
- Baptist orthopathy.
- What’s wrong with this picture?
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.
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.
Tasty Tidbits 10/17/11
- Dragon Mom.
- Mark Cuban talks sense to OWS.
- The Two Millennial Commandments.
- Private vice and the public interest.
- Harold the Heretic is at it again.
- Idols of our day.
Tasty Bonus 10/11/11
- The blind dissing the blind.
- Socialism, Capitalism, Distributism.
- Cut federal budget by 2/3?
- Buttoned-down radicals
- The other anti-Mormon bigotry.
Tasty Tidbits 9/28/11
- Ayn Rand on the multiplication of criminal laws.
- What is a “progressive”?
- Where are the progressives (whatever they are)?
- Another impending execution. Yawn!
- 2 kinds of “peak oil.”
- Andrew Sullivan’s lazy slander.
- School as “a place apart.”
- Some God the gift to gie us …
- Why write?
Tasty Tidbits 8/27/11
- World’s strongest hallucinogen is 152 (million?) years old today.
- Hurricane Irene.
- Fed Jackboot report.
- On a more hopeful note.
- Weighing money versus counting it.
- Steve Jobs on succeeding.
Tasty Tidbits 8/23/11
- Tipsier than usual.
- A New Title IX Regulation, maybe?
- C. Schmoo Lewis.
- Exorcising Monsaton.
- Romance or marriage?
- Poke in eye. (If that doesn’t work, knee in groin?)
- Free the Data!
- An ocean divides us, but …
- Crop failure.
- At the corner of time and eternity.
