- Anyone want to make any snide comments about the “slippery slope”
- “So this stupid, subhuman homeless person walks into a newspaper story and says ….”
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Cracker.
- Newt the Constitutional Scholar.
- Pandora gets — Holy smokes! Wouldja look at that! — a facelift.
- I do so wish that some GOP hopeful for 2012 would not race to the lunatic fringe.
- Can the study of history heal the culture wars?
- Souls experience strange things, apparently, when exiled from the body.
- “One of the Best Ones” is one of his best ones.
Category: “Spiritual” (maybe Religious)
Tasty Tidbits 7/12/11
Today’s Tidbits:
- You know it was a great vacation when …
- Pro Urbanism, Anti-sprawl.
- If there’s no solution, there’s no problem.
- Messages from beyond the grave.
- The Faith Never Delivered to the Saints.
Tasty Tidbits 7/6/11
Here’s some Tasty Tidbits for the day:
- Casey who?
- Cyrus the Above Average.
- Bradley who?
- How many do you need for a “stampede”?
- Nobody here but us Christians, ya’ darned heretics.
- Rare earth just became a bit commoner.
- Thomas More
- Jacknife Theology.
- Don’t hold your breath waiting for this 51st State.
- Ag-Gag Law?
Tasty Tidbits 7/1/11
Here’s today’s tasty tidbits:
- Evangelicals lose political influence; should they thank God for that?
- McCarthyism in the darndest places
- The cost of freedom?
- Why should the Scots have had so many good preachers?
- An un-Reformed clergyman addresses a once-Reformed denomination.
- Bereft!
- OCD Strikes AmConMag.
- Is the root of the problem something other than Islam itself?
- Near miss?
- Disneyfication provokes cyber-attack.
Daily Grab Bag
I’m going to try a little experiment to see if I can cease flooding Facebook with some of the intriguing things I read in the course of a day. So here’s today’s grab bag: Continue reading “Daily Grab Bag”
Eureka! Why Voodoo (and some other things) creep me out
Religion & Ethics Newsweekly on PBS Friday night had a non-judgmental story on a Voodoo priestess in New Orleans. Voodoo makes me queasy, and when that happens (which isn’t often) I want to know why. Do I deep down believe in Voodoo’s efficacy or something?
When I sat down to note my queasiness with voodoo in writing, I ended up with not only my answer, but an “Aha!” moment that helped me crack another nut I’d been working on.
Continue reading “Eureka! Why Voodoo (and some other things) creep me out”
Not with a bang or a whimper
You’re reading this, and it’s after May 21 in most time zones, so the world apparently didn’t end Saturday. Not with a bang or a whimper. Continue reading “Not with a bang or a whimper”
7-Point Program from the Brink of Insanity
I was going to post this (with a gloating wrapper) at 00:01 on 5/22/11, the day after the end of the world. But the discussion has heated up beyond my expectation, and I don’t want to wait. Continue reading “7-Point Program from the Brink of Insanity”
Preaching to the Choir
Preaching tells people what they need to know. Preaching to the Choir tells them what they want to hear. Continue reading “Preaching to the Choir”
Church and State
Georgia State history professor David Sehat adds to the Washington Post “Five Myths” series a worthy “Five Myths about Church and State in America.” I’d like to add a few observations, though.
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Tipsy Teetotaler ن 