….are better, I suppose, than the kind of reds that skulked about under one’s bed and in the closets, back in the days of the “Red Scare.” The Maoists have come down from the hills, figuratively and literally, and into office in Nepal (most of the Cabinet line-up and current President [...]
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Honest Communists…
Posted in Commentary on October 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
great piece..
Posted in Commentary, Other people's thoughts on October 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On one aspect of the economic crisis.
Una Mas..
Posted in Commentary on September 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
One more idiocy from the statists on the left who want to broaden my freedom.
Great news
Posted in Commentary on September 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A visit by the Turkish head of state to neighboring Armenia is entirely off the radar screen of American media, perhaps; but this is big news. Anyone who has tried to broach the question of Armenian deaths in the closing days of the Ottoman empire with a modern Turk will understand the [...]
A peep, not even a little one?
Posted in Commentary on August 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I wonder if we’ll be hearing about these outrages from the ACLJ? Probably not. Freedom slips away in bits and pieces, with the help of statists both on the left and on the right.
Pithy thoughts on dance for the Christian
Posted in Commentary on August 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I do not say that all movements and motions with the body are redeemable. I do say that it is modern crypto-gnosticism to say that movements of the body (either by one body, or two [couples] or a group [say, square dancing]) are inherently suspect or suspicious.
I note with a birds-eye sort of [...]
Russian National Anthem
Posted in Commentary on August 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Found while looking for something else: The Russian National Anthem. I immediately noted it uses the same music as the Old Soviet-Era hymn, and the lyrics are interesting well. Nationalism writ large, with an attempt to shoehorn in some other “brother” nations. A pro forma invocation of God, as the [...]
Infocolypse
Posted in Commentary, More About Me on August 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Infocalypse
August 1, 2007 by singlechristianman
You probably accept that the Book of Revelations contains a lot of figurative imagery, don’t you? Someone walking around in a group of lamps, the sky “rolling back like a scroll,” all sorts of creatures more vivid than even a modern horror movie could match. This image is from a print [...]
Repeat Performance
Posted in Commentary on August 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
C. S. Lewis wisely observed that we try to repeat our pleasures. He wasn’t engaging in moral finger-wagging, here; just making this observation. We can experience such joy in an experience — it might be in the writing, or reading, of a poem; perhaps in a dance or musical moment, [...]
Turn your head and cough..
Posted in Commentary, Diary on November 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
My friend DingoEnlish gives me this link about the TSA; not revealing anything that I didn’t know already. But it is worth a read; and it illuminates my thinking a bit as well. When I was in Bahrain in transit to London we all got patted down (women passengers, as well [...]
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