Things that cheer me up

It’s no secret that in many ways I’m less than sanguine about the direction of the country and the world. As a guy who by long habit (I’ll not make a virtue of the habit) sees the glass half empty, it probably behooves me to mention things that cheer me up. Although I open with an explicitly religious one, they’re not all religious by any means. One of them may even have anti-religious undertones. And not even one is political; where’s the good news in that wasteland?

  1. Romans 8:38-39.
  2. People voting with their feet.
  3. Beauty.
  4. Steven Pinker.
  5. Front Porch Republic.
  6. Craftsmanship.
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Wednesday, October 10, 2011

  1. Did you hear the one about the old maid?
  2. Why Handwriting Matters.
  3. On voluntarily leaving the center of the cosmos.
  4. Critiquing the Critics
  5. Redoubling efforts.
  6. Death to smart alecks!
  7. Substance-free foreign policy prattle.

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Lord’s Day, September 16, 2012

  1. When the solution’s a problem.
  2. Exploiting the valuable, defending the beloved.
  3. Need prophets know about the electromagnetic spectrum?
  4. Hillbillies, yokels and perceptions.
  5. The lab versus the Cross.
  6. Incommensurable art.
  7. Boomers and Stickers.
  8. Perfectly assimilated, perfectly forgotten.

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